Experimental Publishing Compendium

tool

Pelican

Description

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 directly in reStructuredText or Markdown with a simple command-line tool to regenerate the site.

Developer

Justin Mayer

Software license

AGPL-3.0 License

Software language(s)

Python

Project page

https://getpelican.com/

Code repository

https://github.com/getpelican/pelican

Import / ingest formats

reStructuredText, Markdown

Output formats

HTML

Platform status

actively maintained : last GitHub commit on 2025-04-19

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...

Practices

Computational publishing

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

Versioning

Versioning (also known as processual, iterative, or continuous publishing), as a concept and practice used within academic research and...