Post-Publishing.org

"With the demise of traditional gatekeepers and the introduction of new modes of publishing and distribution, conventional distinctions between publishing (as the activity of making information available to the general public) and diverse forms of research and writing are blurring. Increasingly, writing – be it critical or creative – is being made public, in print and on screen as well as in hybrid forms, as part of the various stages of its development. ... Traditional post-publication elements such as comments, highlights, discussions, reviews, updates etc., now become part of the ‘original’ publication; i.e. the process of post-publication becomes that of publishing itself. ...

In this project we take interest in this transformation and the new centrality of post-publishing in contemporary publishing practices. Tools and collaborative platforms such as wikis, annotation software, and libre licenses allow the publishing community to take up and further develop publication-in-process as publication-as-process...."