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Items are listed in approximate priority order.

Implement secure communication (SSL/https) for all login and account interactions on arXiv - All interactions with the submission, moderation and admin system should be over SSL. The login in particular exposes arXiv to sniffing attacks for user, moderator or admin credentials, and is especially and issue when users login on unsecured wifi.

Improve tools and interfaces to support moderators - Work with the SAB and moderators to define and develop better tools that allow moderators to interact more directly and efficiently with the arXiv system and administrators. The overarching aim is to make best use of available moderator effort by making the work of moderators as quick and convenient as possible, consistent with achieving the quality goals and following policies set out by the SAB.

Implement secure communication (SSL/https) for all login and account interactions on arXiv - All interactions with the submission, moderation and admin system should be over SSL. The login in particular exposes arXiv to sniffing attacks for user, moderator or admin credentials, and is especially and issue when users login on unsecured wifi.

Add automatic classification checks to submission system and integrate with moderator alerting - Need to get Paul's classifier software and model data. Set this up on a production server and understand how we will deploy software and model updates from Paul. Will need to work out how to call this from the submission system for new articles, including pipelining the text extraction needed for the classification to work. Based on response from classifier add information to moderator email and also make classification information available on /mod/ pages. Consider thresholds for alert for reclassification.

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Do category aliasing for cs/math/stat and new category for q-fin - There are three category merges (aliases) requested and one new category requested. Some of these are problematic because there are pre-0704 (old id) submissions that exists with primary category that is becoming an alias and so will "break" the primary<->id correspondence. In the past aliases have been made on an ad-hoc basis by Simeon. We should instead work out and document procedures for such changes. We will need to create some tools for the bulk recategorization of submissions affected by merges.Transfer arxiv.org domain registration from Paul Ginsparg to library - Was in 2006 MOU. 2011-04-06: Paul agreed to transfer domain name. Need to work through Paul's Network Solutions account to effect transfer.

Add automatic overlap detection comparing new submissions with existing corpus and generate notifications for administrators and moderators - Work with Paul Ginsparg to obtain bulk overlap check software and install on production servers. Develop pipeline for checking of new submissions against existing corpus and staged submissions. Developer warnings for administrators and moderators based on overlap check results. Make these warnings available in moderator emails and on /mod/ and /admin/ pages.

Investigate when we'll need to expand the id range to yymm.nnnnn and work out how to do it - We have already had two months with > 8000 submissions (1210=> 8452, 1304 => 8135), we do not know what will happen if we get > 9999 submissions and we would instead like to plan a migration to yymm.nnnnn ids to cater for this.

Add support for ORCID and other author identifiers associated with authors - We would like to support ORCID identifiers for better interoperability with other repositories implementing authority control and also as a route toward providing institutional statistics for member organizations (because ORCID is implementing storage of affiliation in the profile data).

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