Renaissance Knowledge Network - Web Platforms and Publishing

Scalar

Anonymous — Tue, 09 Dec 2014 22:49:06 +0000

"Scalar is a free, open source authoring and publishing platform that’s designed to make it easy for authors to write long-form, born-digital scholarship online". Scalar is designed to accommodate "small to moderate amounts of structured content" that "need a lightweight platform that encourages improvisation with your data model". Combining standardization with flexible structure, Scalar is a web authoring tool that integrates and balances a variety of media sources. Scalar is ideal for formatting and publishing "essay- and book-length works in ways that take advantage of the unique capabilities of digital writing, including nested, recursive, and non-linear formats". Scalar supports collaborative authorship and reader responses. Scalar is a project of the Alliance for Networking Visual Culture (ANVC).

URL:

http://scalar.usc.edu

Classification:

Web Platforms and Publishing

Omeka

Anonymous — Tue, 09 Dec 2014 22:49:06 +0000

Omeka "is a free, flexible, and open source web-publishing platform for the display of library, museum, archives, and scholarly collections and exhibitions". Designed for non-It specialists, Omeka makes launching an online exhibition as quick and "easy as launching a blog". Omeka's unique software "falls at a crossroads of Web Content Management, Collections Management, and Archival Digital Collections Systems". "With a focus on content and interpretation rather than programming", Omeka brings the technologies of the web to academic and cultural digital projects in order to "foster user interaction and participation". Omeka's robust developer makes quality website design easy. Omeka can be appropriated for a variety of projects in the scholarly and alt-ac community, such as publishing a digital essay, creating a space for digital collaboration, sharing collections or curating online exhibits, launching an online catalogue, or creating classroom lesson plans and modules.

URL:

http://omeka.org

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Web Platforms and Publishing

ScholarPress

Anonymous — Tue, 09 Dec 2014 22:49:06 +0000

ScholarPress is a WordPress plugin that enables you to manage a class using a WordPress page. The ScholarPress features facilitates the addition and editing of a class schedules, the creation of the bibliography, managing assignments, and completing general course tasks. ScholarPress was designed for university courses but is easily customizable to other types of classroom environments. Recently, ScholarPress was awarded a a Digital Humanities Start-Up grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. With this grant, ScholarPress hopes to improve and add the following features into their application: tying in bibliography services like Zotero, updating the scheduling application for easier use, integrating a CV builder, and linking in research tools so digital humanities scholars can organize and disseminate their scholarship digitally.

URL:

http://scholarpress.net

Classification:

Web Platforms and Publishing

Drupal

Anonymous — Tue, 09 Dec 2014 22:49:06 +0000

Drupal is a free, open source web publishing package that facilitates the easy organization, management, and publication of content online. Drupal is written in PHP and is used as the back-end framework for website ranging from personal blogs to corporate and governmental webpages. The basic Drupal system- known as Drupal core - includes account registration and maintenance, menu management, RSS feeds, taxonomy, page layout customization, and system administration. The Drupal community has also manufactured thousands of free modules (or customized addons) that expand Drupal's features and extend its capabilities. Drupal appeals to a wide variety of users because the framework requires little programming knowledge to operate but it also offers a sophisticated interface for developers. Drupal hosts a semiannual conference that alternates between North America and European locations. The 2014 conference drew more than 3,700 people - speaking to the expanding reach and importance of this web publishing tool.

URL:

https://www.drupal.org/about

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Web Platforms and Publishing

CommentPress

Anonymous — Tue, 09 Dec 2014 22:49:06 +0000

CommentPress is a WordPress plugin or software extension that promotes the social lives of social texts in social contexts. CommentPress was created as a rebellion against the "ill-fitting metaphors from the realm of print" that have been haplessly prescribed to digital texts and failure to acknowledge that "the fact that texts take on different values and assume different properties when placed in the digital environment". CommentPress developed out of the Institute for the Future of the Book which was a special taskforce charged with addressing the "failure of imagination by stimulating a broad rethinking—in publishing, academia and the world at large—of books as networked objects". CommentPress was an experiment to see if the "popular net-native publishing form, the blog", could be "refashioned to enable social interaction around long-form texts". CommentPress situates reader responses alongside the text - paragraph by paragraph, line by line - thereby subverting the discussion hierarchy of blogs and creating a conversation.

URL:

http://futureofthebook.org/commentpress/about-commentpress/

Classification:

Web Platforms and Publishing

Tumblr

Anonymous — Tue, 09 Dec 2014 22:49:06 +0000

Tumblr is a web publishing platform that allows users to effortlessly "post text, photos, quotes, links, music, and videos from your browser, phone, desktop, email or wherever you happen to be" . Founded in 2007, Tumblr was modelled after tumblelogs or short-form blogs. Users operate a rolling blog page that can be categorized as either open or private. Open Tumblr pages are searchable, followable, and rebloggable (a Tumblr user can repost your content on their own blog page) by the Tumblr community. The majority of Tumblr activities are managed through the blog page dashboard which allows users to view the live feed of recent blog posts from blogs they follow, comment or reblog content from blogs that appear on their dashboard, and to post original content. Tumblr relies on tags (#) to build connections between blog posts that address similar content or themes. As of December 1, 2014, Tumblr hosted over 213 million blogs.

URL:

https://www.tumblr.com/about

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Web Platforms and Publishing

WordPress

Anonymous — Tue, 09 Dec 2014 22:49:06 +0000

WordPress is popular online publishing platform that operates both a rich, subscription site developer - WordPress.org - and an open source, free site developer - WordPress.com. WordPress began as a blogging system but has"evolved to be used as full content management system and so much more through the thousands of plugins and widgets and themes, WordPress is limited only by your imagination". With their multiple hosting options, WordPress caters to a wide variety of users: from those without any technical knowledge but a desire to publish online to corporations operating robust and professional websites. Implementing a user-friendly interface but offering many opportunities for personalization, WordPress strikes the perfect balance between ease and extensibility. Powering over 23% of the internet, WordPress has an incredible support system built through live chats, support pages, and open forums.

URL:

https://wordpress.org/about/

Classification:

Web Platforms and Publishing