Experimental Publishing Compendium

practice

Computational
publishing

Tools

Curvenote

Publishing frontend for Jupyter Notebook with an emphasis on data science publishing. enables easy inclusion of equations, formulae, graphs,...

Electric Book

A suite of software and templates that produce static sites for book publications from Markdown documents using Jekyll. Able to output as a...

GitHub Pages

Static site generator using Jekyll to publish Git repositories as websites. Easily adapted to hosted a website for a monograph publication with a...

GitLab

Hosting for Git repositories which can be turned into static sites for monograph publications. Able to include live code snippets which can be run...

Jupyter Notebook

File format for creating and sharing computational documents. A popular choice for authors putting together documents with live, interactive code...

Jupyter Book

Front-end software for producing monograph publications from computational material including Markdown, reStructuredText, Jupytext, or Jupyter...

Manifold

Large-scale publishing platform for publishing text and accompanying digital resources. Able to incorporate a range of rich digital media. Strong...

MediaWiki

Collaboration and publishing platform used to run Wikipedia. Easily adaptable to monograph publishing and can incorporate a range of rich digital...

JupyterLite

A full JupyterLab distribution running in the browser

PubPub

Supports community-based collaborative drafting, review, and publication of scholarly work "using an integrated and iterative process"

Quarto

Quarto is an open-source scientific and technical publishing system built on Pandoc. It can create dynamic content with Python, R, Julia, and...

Storyspace

Storyspace is a tool for complex, interlinked narrative, both fiction and nonfiction. Twenty years ago, the original Storyspace ushered in the era...

Netlify

Publish incredibly high performance websites and applications right from GitHub. The Netlify platform connects your repositories to an all-in-one...

Open Square

Open Square is NYU Press’s platform for publishing and reading open access books. A browser-based reading platform, Open Square enables us to...

Readium

The fundamental goal of the Readium project is to produce a set of robust, performant, spec-compliant reading system toolkits that support digital...

ACLS Workbench

A fork of Scalar that promoted scholarly collaboration by allowing scholars to "create, join, or clone online arguments enhanced with multimedia content".

(No longer maintained)

Pelican

Pelican is a static site generator written in Python that requires no database or server-side logic. It allows the user to make a site by writing...

paged.js

Paged.js is a free and open source JavaScript library that paginates content in the browser to create PDF output from any HTML content. This means...

JupyterLab

JupyterLab is the a web-based interactive development environment for Jupyter Notebook files, code, and data. Its flexible interface allows users...

Binder

Binder is a web-based executable environment for running Jupyter Notebook files and creating computational documents.

ServPub

ServPub is an experimental platform for research and practice on experimental and computational publishing, to reflect collectively on affective...

Books

Aesthetic Programming: A Handbook of Software Studies

2021, Winnie Soon and Geoff Cox

Aesthetic Programming asks “how power differentials are implicit in code in terms of binary logic, hierarchies, naming of the...

The Turing Way: A Handbook for Reproducible Data Science

2019, The Turing Way Community

The Turing Way is an open source community-driven guide to reproducible, ethical, inclusive and collaborative data science. Its goal is to...

Campus Medius: Digital Mapping in Cultural and Media Studies

2022, Simon Ganahl

Campus Medius explores and expands the possibilities of digital cartography in cultural and media studies. Simon Ganahl documents the...

Metagaming: Playing, Competing, Spectating, Cheating, Trading, Making, and Breaking Videogames

2017, Stephanie Boluk and Patrick LeMieux

Boluk and LeMieux shine a hundred spotlights on play’s diversity in, on, around, between, through, and without video games. Their wildly...

Enchanting the Desert: A Pattern Language for the Production of Space

2016, Nicholas Bauch

Enchanting the Desert is the geographical revival of Henry Peabody's travelling Grand Canyon slide-show made in the early part of the twentieth...

Socrates in the labyrinth: Hypertext, Argument, Philosophy

1994, David Kolb

Socrates in the Labyrinth is a wide-ranging exploration of the relationships between hypertext, thought, and argument. Does hypertext present...

Cyborg: Engineering the body electric

1995, Diane Greco

Diane Greco explores the significance of the cyborg in 20th century writing. from Thomas Pynchon and William Gibson to Haraway and Derrida. The...

Learning From YouTube

2011, Alexandra Juhasz

The MIT Press, in partnership with the Alliance for Networking Visual Culture, has just published Learning from YouTube (MIT Press, February...

Aesthetic Programming: A Handbook of Software Studies (Ciston & Marino fork)

2021, Sarah Ciston and Mark C. Marino

A fork of Soon & Cox's Aesthetic Programming with an additional chapter 8.5 and additional features throughout.

Aesthetic Programming: A Handbook of Software Studies (Traditional Chinese fork)

2022, Winnie Soon, Geoff Cox, Tzu Tung Lee, Ren Yu, and Shih-yu Hsu

A fork of Soon & Cox's Aesthetic Programming translating the whole text into Traditional Chinese

The CryptoParty Handbook

2013, CryptoParty

A handbook of computer and internet security and a practical guide for CryptoParties. Created as a GitHub repository by forking two existing...

Basic Internet Security

2011, FLOSS Manuals

A collaboratively-produced book written in a Book Sprint by members of FLOSS Manuals, an open and voluntary organisation of approx. 3000...

Reading Project: A Collaborative Analysis of William Poundstone's Project for Tachistoscope {Bottomless Pit}

2015, Jessica Pressman, Mark C. Marino, and Jeremy Douglass

Reading Project had an online companion to the print book built in ACLS Workbench for cloning, forking, and building upon the original text.

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