Books Contain Multitudes: Exploring Experimental Publishing (2022 update)

Abstract

Introductory thread to the new COPIM ExpPub Thread series, "Chapter 1" on annotation tools; "Chapter 2" on platforms; "Chapter 3" on remix communities: and "Chapter 4", on open licensing, translations, and text and data mining.

Open Sourcing Reuse

“…However, a differentiation between open source applications has to be made (COPIM, 2022;Maxwell et al, 2019;Chang et al, 2007), as they are supported by a variety of business models. For example, many large…”

“…We also highlight the underlying value system and modus operandi chosen by each of the tools so as to make visible the features that may prove conducive for inclusion in a curated selection of such tools, as we seek to do in the COPIM project." Additionally, within COPIM, we have concentrated on interoperable applications that can be used modularly as "many interesting experiments happen (both in digital scholarship and publishing) when using and combining different tools together in new ways" (COPIM, 2022).…”

Form, genre, voice, and authority in human geography: A speculative genealogy

“…Affects, she suggested, both take form and give form (see also Brinkema, 2014). As a number of geographical experiments in the early-2030s showed, aided by new publishing trends in transforming the possibilities and technologies of the monograph (Adema et al, 2022), approaching form in terms of a dynamic and differentiating process enabled fluid geographical forms that produced outputs that were dynamic and continuously adapting and transforming, through forms that were variously hybrid, experimental, continually evolving, collaborative, 'living', performative, 'versioned', and so on.…”