Experimental Publishing Compendium

tool

Manifold

Description

Large-scale publishing platform for publishing text and accompanying digital resources. Able to incorporate a range of rich digital media. Strong focus on publishing, dissemination, and annotating rather than authoring or editing.

Developer

University of Minnesota Press and CUNY Graduate Center

Software license

GPL-3.0 License

Software language(s)

Ruby / JavaScript

Project page

https://manifoldapp.org/

Code repository

https://github.com/ManifoldScholar/manifold

Import / ingest formats

Google Docs, HTML, Markdown, EPUB

Platform status

actively maintained : last GitHub commit on 2025-02-07

Accompanying video

Books

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...

Cut/Copy/Paste: Fragments from the History of Bookwork

2021, Whitney Trettien

Cut/Copy/Paste explores the relations between fragments, history, books, and media. It does so by scouting out fringe maker cultures of the...

Practices

Annotating

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

Collaborative writing

Academic publishing and reward structures are set up to reproduce individualised, liberal humanist forms of authorship. Experiments with more...

Computational publishing

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

Reviewing

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

Rewriting

Rewriting involves the practice of re-envisioning an already existing text without (necessarily) intervening into the original source text. It...

Versioning

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