indie_SAGE Technical Publishing Working Group #iSTPWG
— Innovating Rapid Publishing for COVID-19
Get Involved With the Working Group! Join us on chat #iSTPWG:matrix.org or DM Simon Worthington @mrchristian99
A volunteer research working group to provide technical publishing assistance for The Independent Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (indie_SAGE) in the fight against COVID.
Here you can see a pilot example of converting an existing PDF report into a multi-format publication and applying basics DOI, ISBN identifiers and metadata - web, screen PDF, ebook, print-on-demand, and as HTML source. See results: Should Schools Reopen?
Blogposts
See: https://independent-sage.github.io/publishing-working-group-blog/
Work group volunteers!
The working group is looking for volunteers and resources to help in the rapid publishing, dissemination and innovations for public engagement of indie_SAGE publications.
Share the volunteer blogpost - Sept 2020 'Call for Volunteers: Launching indie_SAGE Technical Publishing Working Group'
See the GitHub 'Project' for current tasks, a Wiki for documentation.
If you're interested in volunteering, or have a question or comment join us on chat using Element (Riot) - room #iSTPWG:matrix.org download the (Element client), or you can DM Simon Worthington on Twitter @mrchristian99 or email publications@independentsage.org.
Currently we're looking for people with skills in the following (>Sept 2020):
- librarians for metadata;
- editors for proofing production;
- technical IT - Markdown, Git, DevOps, XML, Jekyll/Hugo, Kubernetes and Terraform, etc.;
- publishing production managers;
- data scientists and Jupyter Notebooks;
- open project GitHub/Lab setup and wrangling;
- graphic design & web design - CSS;
- Wordpress UX/UI, and;
- Citizen Science researchers.
Roadmap
- Convert all existing reports to multi-format publications
- Ready a 'rapid publishing' workflow for future reports
- Develop an Open Science workflow for all other outputs: video, slides, data, etc.
- Introduce 'computation publishing' and data science workflows. e.g., Juypter Notebooks
- Ensure high quality metadata workflows - Help! Really need a multidimensional metadata management systems
- Develop strategy for public engagement of indie_SAGE publications
Report catalogue
Members
- Simon Worthington - iSTPWG team leader. Twitter @mrchristian99; Acting in an individual capacity as research lead of the Hybrid Publishing Consortium an independent research group for book liberation. https://consortium.io/
- Raquel Perez de Eulate - Designer, CSS Typesetting. Interpunct Studios - Full Stack Graphic Design https://interpunct.dev/
Supporters
- Fidus Writer - Real-time academic wordp rocessor open-source web platform https://www.fiduswriter.org/
- Vivliostyle - CSS Typesetting open-source framework https://vivliostyle.org/
Meetings
- Open Video Call - 17:00 UTC 17 Sept | There will be an open video call on Jitsi https://meet.jit.si/iSTPWG at 17 Sept. 17:00 UTC if you want to find out more about the working group. Wiki notes
Workflows (base)
Report back catalogue workflow
Rapid publishing pipeline
Software Stack
Only Office
https://github.com/ONLYOFFICE/CommunityServer
CodiMD
Fidus Writer
https://github.com/fiduswriter/fiduswriter
GNU Affero General Public License v3.0
Donate https://www.fiduswriter.org/donate/
Vivliostyle
https://github.com/vivliostyle/vivliostyle.js/tree/master/packages/viewer
AGPL Version 3
Transpect
BSD 2-Clause "Simplified" License
Copyright (c) 2015, transpect.io All rights reserved.
EPUBCheck W3C
https://github.com/w3c/epubcheck
BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License
Docsify
https://github.com/docsifyjs/docsify
MIT License
Copyright (c) 2016 - present cinwell.li
Docsify Open Publishing Starter Kit
https://github.com/hibbitts-design/docsify-open-publishing-starter-kit
MIT License
Copyright (c) 2020 Paul Hibbitts
Hugo
https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo
Apache License 2.0
About us: 'indie_SAGE Technical Publishing Working Group #iSTPWG'
A group of Open Science volunteer organised as a working group to assist indie_SAGE in rapid --- multi-format, multi-channel publishing. iSTPWG carries out technical and publishing tasks and is not involved in the authoring of the reports scientific work. If you have an enquiry about the reports scientific contents please contact Independent SAGE.