The consortium’s mission is to support software development communities to build free and open source publishing infrastructures.

The consortium is a network of businesses, community groups and researchers.

The consortium’s activities include; research and research publishing, software development, business development, advocacy, publishing, events and peer-learning.

The consortium is open to all areas of publishing. The current priority is interoperability between software platforms in scholarly publishing that are using multi-format and multimedia functionality.

The consortium is operated by the research organization the Hybrid Publishing Group.

Connecting Platforms

The consortium supports an infrastructural backend software ecology to connect publishing platforms to enable — continuous validation, real-time processing, multi-format outputs and multimedia features.

The objective is to promote design excellence in — authoring systems, publication layout and interface design, librarianship and engineering — to enable diverse and global communities in the pursuit of knowledge creation and dissemination.

Key to the infrastructural approach is a notion of a universal fluid document model based on format transformation aligned to output requirements, rather than fixed format standards. The fluid document model is then combined with a test-driven methodology combining continuous validation and technologies including real-time processing, cryptographic IDs, flat-file storage, Docker virtualisation, encrypted documents and content distribution network APIs.

The goal of the infrastructure is to create a new synthesis of computational automation and human skills and agency, adding next-gen reliability and speed to publication production. In turn this new synthesis will change the use and control of knowledge institutions and industries.

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Getting Involved

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Members Include

Organisations: Le-Tex Publishing Services GmbH, Fidus Writer, AVCO Limited, Hybrid Publishing Group, InfoMesh Technologies UG, Small Museums (Canada), xm:lab - Experimental Media Lab (HBKsaar, DE) and Center for Disruptive Media (Coventry University, UK), Mute Publishing. Scholarly publishing consultation members: Kavita Philip and Senthil Babu.

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