Experimental Publishing Compendium

tool

CommentPress

Description

CommentPress is an open source theme and plugin for the WordPress blogging engine that allows readers to comment paragraph-by-paragraph, line-by-line or block-by-block in the margins of a text.

Developer

The Institute for the Future of the Book

Software license

GPL-2.0 License

Software language(s)

PHP

Project page

https://futureofthebook.org/commentpress/

Code repository

https://github.com/IFBook/commentpress-core

Platform status

actively maintained

Books

Planned Obsolescence: Publishing, Technology, and the Future of the Academy

2011, Kathleen Fitzpatrick

Planned Obsolescence springs from the author Kathleen Fitzpatrick’s hands-on experiments in new modes of scholarly communication...

Generous Thinking: A Radical Approach to Saving the University

2019, Kathleen Fitzpatrick

Developed in an open way by a process of community review, still using the CommentPress plugin, but now on the Humanities Commons platform:...

The Ethnographic Case

2017, Emily Yates-Doerr and Christine Labuski

The Ethnographic Case is an experimental, online, Open Access book, that invites readers to interact with it in a process of post-publication...

Gamer Theory

2007, McKenzie Wark

Together with the Institute for the Future of the Book I produced this website as a way to think about games. We released Version 1.1 back in...

Practices

Annotating

Annotations, notes scribbled in the margins or digitally overlain, spin out from a source text, adding layers of meaning, interpretations,...

Reviewing

Evaluation of research by the scholarly community is essential to conducting and publishing research. In response to changing publication...