Computational Publishing Pilot Project. Introducing Our Partners and Communities | Community-led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs (COPIM)

by Janneke Adema Our last post on Computational Book Publishing by Simon Bowie kicked off our documentation of this COPIM WP6 Experimental Publishing Pilot Project, which consists of a collaboration between COPIM, the Open Science Lab at the Technische Informationsbibliothek (TIB) Hanover (working with Simon Worthington as the lead on this collaboration) and Open Book Publishers. The aim of this Pilot Project is to create a working prototype or proof of concept for the publication of computational books, based on real (sample) digital objects, and to adapt this to the publishing workflow of Open Book Publishers. The central question this pilot wants to address is how computational books—the combinations of text and executable code—can be integrated and made compatible with an existing publisher's infrastructures and workflows for monograph publishing. We will be trying out various computational publishing tools to create this prototype, including Curvenote, Quarto, Jupyter Notebook, JupyterLab, and Jupyter Book. As this Pilot has seen a changing set of partners and institutions involved during its gestation and as beyond these partners there are several connections to other projects and communities, we wanted to use this blogpost to introduce the communities that are currently involved in the Pilot and are contributing to the extended work plan that has been developed as part of this collaboration.