Experimental Publishing Compendium

tool

ACLS
Workbench

Description

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

Developer

Jeremy Douglass, Jessica Pressman, and Mark Marino

Software language(s)

PHP

Code repository

https://github.com/rust-lucas/ACLSWorkbenchScalar

Platform status

no longer maintained

Books

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.

Practices

Computational publishing

Computational publishing broadly refers to publishing a book using techniques or processes from software development. This can include software...

Forking

Forking is a form of computational publishing that involves creating a derivative version of a previously published text or book to make...