Mapping Workflows

One of the things I do a lot, is help people think through their workflows and how to optimise them. We do this for all kinds of projects – book workflows, journals, micropubs, pre-print services etc prior to developing a software with them that will help them do what they do better, enable efficiencies, while leaving … Continue reading “Mapping Workflows”

Cool stuff coming up on Editoria

While Yannis and Christos have been in San Francisco they worked on a number of features that will appear in the soon-to-be-released Editoria 1.1 The two standout features include: automagic book builder diacritics interface The automagic book builder built primarily by Yannis enables a user to populate the structure of a book automatically from a directory … Continue reading “Cool stuff coming up on Editoria”

What version is it anyway?

We are currently building multiple systems which are all component based. PubSweet, for example, contains three softwares (which you can find here): pubsweet-server pubsweet-client pubsweet-cli In addition, Editoria, is built on top of PubSweet and it consists of at least the following standalone components (which you can find here): editoria editoria-dashboard editoria-bookbuilder wax-editor To the end user … Continue reading “What version is it anyway?”

In case you missed it

I’ve been pondering innovation a lot recently. I think this has come about because of a whole bunch of 1.0 releases that the Coko team has produced over the last weeks. There is a lot of publishing and software systems innovation popping out of those releases – Editoria 1.0, INK 1.0 (now 1.1 already), and PubSweet … Continue reading “In case you missed it”

Towards Web-based Word Processors p2

To get this discussion off the ground, I think it’s helpful to first think of what the standard features of a text editor are since word processors have all these features and then some. It’s the ‘and then some’ that I’m most interested in i.e. the essential features that make something a word processor. Text Editor … Continue reading “Towards Web-based Word Processors p2”

Coko Products

I am currently planning how to keep all the Coko projects balanced and moving forward. It gave me a moment to reflect on just how productive we have been. At present we have 6 major products, all moving forward at an excellent pace, they include : PubSweet  – the API toolkit for building publishing workflows … Continue reading “Coko Products”

Open Source

I have been involved in many open source projects but the below is a good snapshot of some the developments I am proud to have been involved with. For a more personal and detailed account of my journey, please see https://www.adamhyde.net/some-publishing-systems-i-have-developed/ Paged.js This is a javacript library for rendering HTML content as PDF, built for pagedmedia.org. … Continue reading “Open Source”