Editorial Workflows for Multimedia-Rich Scholarship

Experimental Book Publishing: Reinventing Editorial Workflows and Engaging Communities 

“…From the outset it was clear to us, as our research has also indicated, that "content and form are entangled (i.e., media forms, workflows, and infrastructures are never 'neutral')" (Helms, 2018; Adema, Mars, and Steiner, 2021) and 'you cannot separate form and content-or the written content from its design' (Ball and Eyman, 2015). Hence in our pilot both the editing and (content and technical) reviewing happens on the platforms that are used for writing and publishing themselves.…”

“…1 However, there is still a lot to be done to stimulate, explore, and practice the full range of book interactions made possible by open access and digital publishing, especially since strategically within the open access movement the focus has been on extending access to books, where reuse, remix, and other more interactive and experimental elements, as well as a "rigorous critical exploration of the form of the book itself" have seen less uptake (Adema and Hall, 2014). These different types of interaction and experimentation also have direct implications for the editorial workflows of publishers, and they require a reconfiguring or reimagining of publishers' standard, still predominantly print-based publishing processes (Ball and Eyman, 2015). This is perhaps one of the reasons why most experiments with academic books have been conducted by either scholar-led or university presses, while larger commercial publishers have been reluctant to explore more experimental and collaborative forms of publishing.…”

Game Not Over: End-User Programming and Game System Modding as Models for Extending Community Engagement

“…Webtexts, in which authors design their argument using linked webpages or database-driven platforms, animations, images, audio, video, scripts, programming languages, and written text, can be equivalent in intellectual scope to an article or a book (Ball and Eyman, 2015).…”

Promoting and Nurturing Interactions with Open Access Books: Strategies for Publishers and Authors

“…Editorial management system design requires consideration of a host of new practices of open review, citation, version control and collaborative review of what they term "webtexts"(Ball and Eyman 2015). One often-cited example of reuse and remix is the Living Books About Life book series published by Open Humanities Press and edited by Clare Birchall, Gary Hall, and Joanna Zylinska.…”