Humanities Book Infrastructure
Bekah Darksmith
April 28, 2015
Infrastructure
Infrastructure
open source, web-based content and
workflow management systems
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We need tools to create
a sustainable, diverse
marketplace of
publications and modes
of distribution.
Streamline and enhance the production of scholarly
monographs through the development of a
noncommercial, end-to-end system that will enable
web-based authoring and collaboration, workflow
management, and flexible outputs for final
publication.
What Can we Gain?
Liberation from production systems that are
stubbornly geared toward typeset pages and
thus ill-suited for digital-first
Robust, born digital tools and features akin to
the high-cost systems utilized by commercial
publishers without the price tag
Collaborative authoring and editing
environments that support the production of
networked, digital publications
System Features
• Rich metadata support, including semantic tagging (enhancing
the usability of the content)
• No typesetting – cost savings of $2.50 and $5.00/page for a
typical monograph
• Scale to support low-cost gold OA models as well as enabling the
production of print-on-demand editions and downloadable files
• XML/HTML-ready texts for publication on the web (no expert
XML knowledge required) and support for additional end-user
scholarly communication tools such as annotation services
• MS Word ingest in addition to a web-based authoring and
editing platform
• Task management features and alerts
• Open source code
UC Press
CDL
Why Now?
UC Press moving into Open Access….
CDL increasing services for authors & editors
Advisory Board
• Peter Brantley, Director, Digital Library Applications, New York Public Library
• Susan Doerr, Operations Manager, University of Minnesota Press
• Martin Eve, Lecturer in English Literature, University of Lincoln; Founder,
Open Library of the Humanities
• Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Director of Scholarly Communication of the Modern
Language Association, Visiting Research Professor of English at New York
University, and is co-editor of MediaCommons
• Kevin Hawkins , Director of Library Publishing, University of North Texas
• Monica McCormick, Digital Scholarly Publishing officer at NYU Libraries and
NYU Press
• Jennifer Norton , Associate Director/EPD Manager at Penn State Press
• Bill Trippe, Director of Technology at MIT Press
Timeline: 2 year grant
• Phase 1 – Concept Development **
• Phase 2 - Requirements gathering and systems
prototyping **
• Phase 3 – Minimal viable product development and
user testing
• Phase 4 – Initial product release and
enhancement/refinement
Questions & Feedback
Erich van Rijn (Co-PI)
Assistant Director, Director of Publishing Operations
University of California Press
[email protected]
Catherine Mitchell (Co-PI)
Director, Access & Publishing Group
Operations Director, Office of Scholarly Publishing
California Digital Library
[email protected]