Editoria – Scholarly Monograph Platform – Collaborative Knowledge Foundation

peter.suber's bookmarks 2017-10-07

Summary:

"Since the second quarter of this year, we have been building a platform with the University of California Press and the California Digital Library. Initially, we were a small team – Kristen, Jure, and Adam – and we were tasked with designing and building an open source monograph production platform with our good friends at UCP and CDL. 

It was an ambitious undertaking as we were building the platform against the yet-to-exist PubSweet backend, and we were also in need of deciding what our design and build paradigm would be, and who was going to do the actual work. In short, we needed to design a platform, build the backend platform on top of which we were to build the Editoria platform, plus find a team....

We proceeded in what is emerging as ‘the Coko way’. We used and supported existing open source projects where we could (Substance and Vivliostyle), we invented open source technology and processes that made sense to us, and found talented people to work with that we also liked...."

Link:

https://coko.foundation/editoria-scholarly-monograph-platform/

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Tags:

oa.tools oa.platforms oa.books oa.up oa.coko_foundation oa.pubsweet oa.editoria oa.infrastructure oa.floss oa.uc.cdl

Date tagged:

10/07/2017, 14:58

Date published:

10/07/2017, 10:58