English institutional workflow for preparing Rawafid / Health Renewal open-book metadata for Thoth Oasis, including rights, identifiers, ONIX readiness, translation provenance, public-record safeguards, and quality control.
Independence notice: this is Rawafid / Health Renewal's own implementation and governance workflow. Mention of Thoth Open Metadata does not imply that Thoth has reviewed, endorsed, accredited, or scientifically validated Rawafid, this page, or any future title.
Rawafid uses a rights-first model: a metadata platform is not a substitute for publishing authority, copyright clearance, editorial review, or scientific quality assurance. Thoth Oasis is treated as a structured metadata-management and export layer for eligible open-access books and chapters.
Thoth describes Oasis as its free self-service metadata platform. It supports structured metadata management and standards-based exports. Rawafid prepares records before entry so public metadata is complete, attributable, and internally auditable.
Thoth's terms make metadata publicly accessible and available under CC0. Rawafid therefore does not create placeholder or speculative production records. A title must pass the authority, rights, editorial, identifier, and metadata gates first.
Automated distribution, DOI registration support, hosting, and archiving are separate services in Thoth's added-value packages. This page does not claim that those services are enabled for Rawafid or that a title has been distributed anywhere.
Books genuinely published by Rawafid / Health Renewal can enter the production workflow after authorship, publishing authority, edition identity, copyright, licence, and quality-control records are complete.
A translated title requires a documented legal basis: an open licence that permits the intended translation/adaptation or written permission. The translated edition must retain source-work provenance, translator credit, source identifiers, and licence compatibility.
Books published by another publisher remain that publisher's works. Rawafid may discover, cite, review, or link to lawful sources, but it does not create a Rawafid publisher record for them without explicit publishing or metadata-management authority.
This profile is deliberately stricter than a simple title spreadsheet. It is the internal minimum Rawafid aims to have available before a public production record is created.
Confirm that Rawafid / Health Renewal is the publisher, co-publisher, or explicitly authorised metadata manager for the work. A discovery relationship alone is not enough.
Document copyright ownership, the exact licence for each released format, cover/illustration rights, and any translation or adaptation permission.
Confirm that the release has completed the applicable editorial, scientific, accessibility, citation, and conflict-of-interest checks before public metadata is created.
Validate title-level and format-level ISBNs, DOI where applicable, contributor ORCID records, and organisation/funder identifiers such as ROR.
Normalize names, roles, dates, languages, subjects, descriptions, relationships, URLs, and licence values in the Rawafid pre-ingest record.
Create the production record through the Thoth interface or use the current official CSV/ONIX bulk-upload template. The Rawafid worksheet is not a substitute for the current Thoth template.
After creation, inspect the public record, identifiers, contributor roles, licence, landing links, and exports. Correct inconsistencies rather than allowing stale metadata to propagate.
Validate required ONIX/MARC/KBART/CSV/BibTeX or other exports for the intended workflow. Distribution, hosting, DOI sponsorship, and archiving are treated as separate services and decisions.
Translation work must not begin from the assumption that “open access” automatically permits translation. The team records the exact licence or written permission, source edition, source publisher, source ISBN/DOI, translator(s), review responsibility, modification notes, and the licence applied to the translated edition.
Preserve the original title, edition, publisher, publication date, canonical URL, ISBN/DOI, and source language so the relationship can be audited later.
Record whether translation is permitted by the source licence or by explicit written authorisation. If permission is conditional, retain those conditions in the internal rights record.
Credit translators and reviewers, distinguish translation from adaptation, disclose material changes, and never imply that the source publisher or author reviewed the Arabic edition unless that review actually occurred.
Because metadata can propagate into catalogues and downstream systems, corrections are treated as publication maintenance rather than cosmetic edits. Rawafid keeps a verification date, change reason, responsible reviewer, and previous value where material. If a production record must be withdrawn or deleted, the team follows Thoth's current support procedure instead of assuming that a public record can be silently erased.
Withdrawal of a book, replacement of a file, a corrected edition, a changed licence, or a contributor correction must be reflected consistently in the canonical landing page and metadata record. A new edition is not silently overwritten as if it were the same manifestation.
Use the CSV below to collect and verify a title before entry into Thoth. It is intentionally a Rawafid pre-ingest worksheet, not an official Thoth import file. For an actual bulk upload, download the current CSV or ONIX template from the Thoth interface and map only verified production data.
One-row-per-edition preparation sheet covering authority, identifiers, contributors, rights, access links, translation provenance, and verification.
Download CSV ↓Arabic reader guideRead the separate Arabic guide for discovery, licence verification, metadata interpretation, and source-quality checks.
Open guide →Publisher-integrity rules, a rights-first intake model, a metadata-readiness profile, a pre-ingest worksheet, a public discovery/licence guide, canonical/indexable pages, and post-deployment checks.
No book should be described here as successfully published or distributed through Thoth until its actual production record and relevant downstream outputs have been verified.
Rawafid's use of Thoth infrastructure is not described as accreditation, scientific review, endorsement, or institutional supervision by Thoth unless a separate written relationship explicitly says so.
No. It is a metadata and publishing-infrastructure record, not a scientific endorsement or accreditation.
Only with documented authority that permits Rawafid to act as publisher/co-publisher or metadata manager for those works. Otherwise, the correct role is discovery, citation, review, or linking.
No. The metadata and the work's content are separate rights layers. Each file and content component must be checked under its own licence and permissions.
No. It is our quality-control worksheet. The current official template must be obtained from Thoth at the time of upload.
Free self-service metadata management and standards-based exports for open-access publishers.
Open official source ↗Metadata standards, persistent identifiers, supported export formats, and CC0 metadata practice.
Open official source ↗Publisher responsibilities, rights in submitted metadata, public access, CC0 dedication, and account obligations.
Open official source ↗Official documentation, APIs, reports, downloads, and implementation resources.
Open official source ↗Separate added-value dissemination, DOI, hosting, and archiving services; not assumed by this Oasis workflow.
Open official source ↗