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Scalar

Description

Enables users to assemble media from multiple sources and juxtapose them with text in a variety of ways with minimal technical expertise required. The platform also supports collaborative authoring workflows and reader commentary.

Software license

ECL-2.0 License

Software language(s)

JavaScript / PHP

Import / ingest formats

HTML, JavaScript, Java, txt, XML, PDF

Output formats

HTML

Platform status

actively maintained
Books

Performing Archive: Curtis + “the vanishing race”

2018, Jacqueline Wernmont, Heather Blackmore, David Kim, Ulia Popova, Beatrice Schuster, Amy Borsuk
Created as a pilot project for the Claremont Center for Digital Humanities, Performing Archive: Edward S. Curtis + ‘the vanishing...

As I Remember It: Teachings (Ɂəms tɑɁɑw) from the Life of a Sliammon Elder

2019, Elsie Paul with Davis McKenzie, Paige Raibmon, and Harmony Johnson
This media-rich, multi-path book offers a rare glimpse into the life of a Coast Salish woman and the history and lifeways of her people. It...
cover for Reading Project: A Collaborative Analysis of William Poundstone's Project for Tachistoscope {Bottomless Pit}

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.

Surfacing

2016, Nicole Starosielski, Erik Loyer, and Shane Brennan
Experimental book that uses Scalar as the backend with Scalar's API feeding a custom UI. In Surfacing, you are a signal traveling across the...