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Tips for authors and publishers to foster interaction with #OAbooks – a weekly COPIM 🧵 series

Chapter 2️⃣: Highlighting collaborative #opensource publishing platforms and authors & communities that have used #annotation workflows as part of their publishing process.

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https://twitter.com/COPIMproject/status/1481984919458959360

Scalar (@anvcscalar), developed by the Alliance for Networking Visual Culture (ANVC), provides options to annotate video, audio, images, source code, and text.

See their comprehensive introduction for an in-depth overview ⤵

2/27

scalar.usc.edu/works/guide2/h…

Scalar also provides access to its own API, through which one "can mashup your Scalar content with other data sources, build your own visualizations, or create completely new interfaces for your materials.”

3/27

scalar.usc.edu/works/guide2/w…

Bodies and Structures 2.0 (@bodiesandstruct), led by Kate McDonald and @dambaras, has used @anvcscalar to develop a fascinating project and digital collection mapping seventeen (!) spatial histories of modern East Asia.

4/27

bodiesandstructures.org

And Claude McKay's Early Poetry (1911-1922): a Digital Collection, developed out of a @LehighU #digitalhumanities seminar by @Electrostani & @EdwardWhitley, uses @anvcscalar to visualize relationships between the poems McKay published through 1922.

5/27

scalar.lehigh.edu/mckay

Manifold (@ManifoldScholar) leverages the social aspect of collaborative interaction through its annotation reading groups.

Reading Groups “are a way for readers to annotate and comment on Texts as a cohort [...]"

6/27

manifoldapp.org

. @au_press & @UMinnPress use bespoke Manifold instances to foster engagement with their published books. Examples include @juspar ’s The Anthrobscene (2014), and @chouxsalad & @alt254 ’s Metagaming (2017).

7/27

manifold.umn.edu/projects/the-a… & manifold.umn.edu/projects/metag…

Oh, and let's not forget to also pay a visit to the @UW1819 ’s collaborative digital edition for the Middlemarch 150th Anniversary Symposium (2021), which celebrates and, through #annotation, reflects upon Mary Ann Evans (George Eliot)'s novel.

8/27

uw.manifoldapp.org/projects/middl…

. @whitneytrettien has just recently talked about her experience of developing her #OAbook Cut/Copy/Paste: Fragments from the History of Bookwork in @ManifoldScholar as part of an interview for the @oabooksnetwork

9/27

Pilot projects such as those between @UWAPress & @uwlibraries, at @CUNY, and at @ALearningGA, are using Manifold to explore the potential of extending student engagement with open texts through social collaborative practices, including #annotation.

10/27

cuny.manifoldapp.org/read/untitled-…

An overview of @ManifoldScholar’s >30 presses and publishing initiatives can be found on their Community page.

11/27

manifoldapp.org/community

PubPub (@pubpub), hosted & developed by @kfutures, is a collaborative writing platform that integrates an #annotation layer to facilitate commentary and peer review.

12/27

pubpub.org

In an exemplary #openpeerreview process, @remikalir and @anterobot made the manuscript of their recently-published monograph Annotation available online via @pubpub, and invited feedback from the wider scholarly community #annotation.

13/27

mitpressonpubpub.mitpress.mit.edu/annotation

In a similar vein, through @pubpub, @schock’s Design Justice: Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need invites readers to share thoughts and comment on her @mitpress monograph which had been published under the same title in 2021

14/27

design-justice.pubpub.org/pub/ap8rgw5e/r…

. @kanarinka & @laurenfklein published their inspiring monograph Data Feminism with @mitpress, using @pubpub to facilitate #openpeerreview of their #OAbook version, which led to an impressive amount of comments and feedback collected.

15/27

data-feminism.mitpress.mit.edu

Open Knowledge Institutions: Reinventing Universities, co-authored by @lucymontgomery, John Hartley, @CameronNeylon et al., was drafted via a collaborative booksprint organised by @CurtinUni, then undergone #openpeerreview via @pubpub ...

16/27

wip.mitpress.mit.edu/oki

... and then was finalised and published through @mitpress.

In a recent blog post, @kfutures' @Publicreations and @booksprint 's Karina Piersig reflect on the journey and process of community publishing ⤵️

17/27

booksprints.net/2021/09/01/com…

In a recent @oabooksnetwork interview, @lucymontgomery talked with @JeroenSondervan and shared insights from her experience of collaborating on the project with twelve other authors.

18/27

The Frankenbook project, presented by @imaginationASU, has likewise employed @pubpub’s annotation capabilities to engage in a “collective reading and collaborative annotation experience” to reframe Shelley's original 1818 text of Frankenstein.

19/27

frankenbook.org

RavenSpace @ravenspacepub is a collaborative publishing space developed by @UBCPress in close collaboration with @UWAPress. It focuses on digital workflows to extend collaborative writing experiences towards the provision of “community peer review”

20/27

ravenspacepublishing.org

As an emerging platform, @ravenspacepub is tailored towards fostering respectful exchange and knowledge circulation between Indigenous communities, scholars, and a readership both inside and outside academia, with a particular focus on Indigenous peoples.

21/27

A first publication, As I Remember It – a collaboration with Elder Elsie Page, @davis_sir, @paige_raibmon and Harmony Johnson – has been published on @ravenspacepub with @UBCPress in 2019.

22/27

ravenspacepublishing.org/publications/a…

Also working with Indigenous communities, the #opensource platform @mukurtu provides "ethical pathways for curation, circulation and attribution of heritage".

Mukurtu has developed a strong network of regional and local community Hubs and Spokes.

23/27

mukurtu.org/mukurtu-hubs-a…

Developed at @WSU_CDSC, @mukurtu showcases a plethora of intriguing born-digital publications.

Take, for example, the impressive Gather project, which connects Aboriginal communities with collections and stories from @statelibrarynsw

24/27

gather.sl.nsw.gov.au

Another showcase, Voices of the Land, hosted by @EPLdotCA, embarks on the mission of sharing stories from Indigenous Alberta, Canada, and invites the Indigenous community to create, share, discover and celebrate local Indigenous content online.

25/27

voicesoftheland.org

To conclude this week's 🧵, there are lots of practical #opensource platforms out there that help facilitate #community #annotation of #OAbooks, or do things slightly differently with fully digital #open content that re-imagines long-form scholarship.

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Stay tuned & join us again next week when we take a closer look at #communities that use #opensource platforms to collaborate on #remixes and/or #versions of #OAbooks

And if you don't want to wait that long, why not have a peek at our report? 😉

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copim.pubpub.org/promoting-and-…

[ editorial correction - the tag should of course go to @jeroenson, apologies for the slip ]