Knowledge Futures invests in PubPub Platform, a new vision for full-stack knowledge infrastructure

At Knowledge Futures our mission is to make information useful. Today, Knowledge Futures announces a new iteration of PubPub, “PubPub Platform,” to improve our ability to serve that mission. With PubPub Platform, we are responding with excitement to the lessons we’ve learned over our many years of community-led development by providing new, full-stack knowledge infrastructure that will allow communities to decide for themselves what it means to make their information useful. We are excited to communicate our vision for PubPub Platform and its purpose, as well as outline the next steps for those using the current version of PubPub (what we are now calling, “PubPub Legacy”). More information can also be found on our new website.

This significant investment in open-source infrastructure marks the beginning of a new chapter at Knowledge Futures. One in which we’re actualizing what we have always believed is PubPub’s potential to provide open-source infrastructure that undergirds trustworthy and accessible knowledge. One based on hard-won learnings, hardships, partnerships, and opportunities. One that is best aligned with achieving our organization’s long-term financial sustainability. We believe PubPub Platform is what our partners and the broader ecosystem need to improve how knowledge is produced and shared.

For most of our tenure working on PubPub, modes of information exchange that prioritize openness, iteration, dynamism, and utility have been considered “experimental,” if not fringe—an outlook we both embraced and challenged. We embraced it by maintaining an open-source, low-barrier-to-entry, form-agnostic publishing infrastructure that required little institutional buy-in to pick up and try on. We challenged it by supporting and highlighting the many examples of high-quality, effective publications that are realized on PubPub.

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