OASPA recently held a webinar on Open Book Metadata that may be of interest. The recording, slides and discussion notes are posted on their blog.

On Tuesday 23 March at 4PM CET / 3PM GMT / 11AM EDT, we will be speaking to Dr. Erzsébet Tóth-Czifra, the Open Science Officer at DARIAH-EU, about a new bursary to fund early-career researchers (ECRs) working in the Digital Humanities who want to publish an Open Access monograph.

Join us to discuss this new bursary, as well as the challenges f…[Read more]

Markus,

I probably don’t need to tell you this, but that’s REALLY ambitious, mostly because creative authors do things you would never expect in a million years, and then they blame you when their docs don’t convert. Also because Word is Word.

What’s the technical plan? Where’s the repo? Are you building on pandoc?

I’m happy to advise on this;…[Read more]

Thanks for this really interesting reply Markus – my apologies for only just seeing it and responding now. I have somehow switched off my notifications so only just remembered to login and check!

The video of our discussion with Reggie Ragu and Jill Claasson about the new continental platform for #OA publishing in Africa is now available! https://youtu.be/5QIIsFt6ax8

Hi Tom.

In fact, something “rudimentarily similar” already exists in several places (e.g. besides Editoria, also in Heidelberg with heiMPT or of course Calibre or similar), but mostly rather specifically embedded in local or proprietary workflows or limited to them.

The OS-APS, on the other hand, is intended to be flexibly usable and integrable…[Read more]

Hi Markus,

Sounds like you’re going to be working on some really interesting stuff here. Good luck! In what way do you see this as producing something different to existing tools that already seem to do a lot of these things (I’m thinking, platforms like Coko and Editoria)? A diverse choice of open source tools is useful but sometimes I’m a bit…[Read more]

Dear Lucy,

the funding guideline was aimed at open access publishers or corresponding publishing activities. Accordingly, this is a bit of a thread running through all the projects:

Sustainability and financing parameters of business and transformation models (CODRIA, TOAA, TransMILL, TU9_Monos, Wallstein-OA, ScholarLedPlus, KOALA, OAdine),…[Read more]

More boOmArks! On Tuesday (2nd March) we will be speaking to Reggie Raju and Jill Claasson about the new continental OA platform for books and journals that has been launched in Africa. It should be a really interesting conversation, and as always is free and open to all — hope to see you there!

Zoom link available with the blog post here:…[Read more]

Hi Markus, this is really interesting, thanks for sharing. I was wondering, are all the 20 projects linked in some way, or are you all independent of each other?

One more: https://go-to-hellman.blogspot.com/2021/02/open-access-for-backlist-books-part-ii.html

Sorry about all the baseball references.

The Federal Ministry of Research and Education has funded various Open Access projects in Germany (see here). In the following, I briefly present ours, the development of an open source infrastructure called “Open Source Academic Publishing Suite (OS-APS)” for media-neutral (Open Access) publishing: https://os-aps.de/en/.

The background of the…[Read more]