Ate some humble pie yesterday when I got super stuck in the sand on Tauroa Peninsula. Doh! A lovely Maori family came and helped me…and then I got them stuck… oh dear…spent another hour helping them out of the hole they got in helping me get out of my hole… what goes round I guess 🙂
Sustain Open Source
Open Source event in London in Oct about supporting the sustainability of open source projects…
https://opencollective.com/sustainoss/events/sustainuk-2018-442ev
Open Source Project Model Taxonomy
Taxonomy is my new favorite word… this from Mozilla.
https://blog.mozilla.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/MZOTS_OS_Archetypes_report_ext_scr.pdf
Interesting, but unfortunately still perpetuating the developer-centric model for open source.
Simple Taxonomy of Review
Just pinning this here… from what I see there are 3 levels of review that occur in publishing a text, and each requires different tools:
- word level – an extremely granular review level, looking at each word. Often changes are tracked and each player is making recommendations that someone(s) need to validate. Hence the entire reason for track changes functionality.
- paragraph level – commentary on the arguments, facts, statements contained in a document. Annotation tools typically cover off on this requirement quite well.
- document level – a single commentary on the entire document. Common in journal publishing eg. a review of a manuscript. Typically achieved by a single written review (per reviewer) and often synthesized into one ‘meta review’ by an editor.
Paragraph and document level tools are pretty easy to produce. Word level tools are extremely complicated… hence I’ve personally avoided trying to produce this kind of tool until demand from publishers pushed us into it. I think a rethink of tools to enable word level review – to come up with simpler tools that cover off on the publisher’s requirements – is very necessary. I’ve tried various ‘diff’ tools for ‘comparing’ changes on a timeline but this has never caught on so well although I’ve personally found this approach very productive and seen non-publishing folk get much out of this kind of approach.
Coko Surf Club
Presentation at an event recently in San Francisco.
New PagedMedia chat server
For all things pagedmedia : https://mattermost.pagedmedia.org/
Peer Review Webinar
Mostly about Coko systems being built for journals.
Sunny day…time to clean the boards…
A Day in Clouds
Surfn Rarawa
Surfing with Julie, Craig and Hunter.