Plume moves into Phase 2 The French financial jurisdictions, which include the Paris-based Cour des comptes (the French Superior Audit Institution) and the regional and territorial chambers of accounts, have been collaborating with Coko for the past 10 months, building an experimental PubSweet platform to facilitate the authoring of audit reports. Plume is now entering…
Several months ago, we shared a list of ‘all the platforms‘ developing with PubSweet. As you can imagine, across these months the list has grown, and there are now illustrations to accompany the descriptions. There are several other platforms in development (12 we can share with you about), so please let us know if you’d…
The French financial jurisdictions, which include the Paris-based Cour des comptes (the French Superior Audit Institution) and the regional and territorial chambers of accounts, have been collaborating with Coko for the past 10 months, building an experimental PubSweet platform. The project is part of a program called Public Interest Entrepreneurs, directed by Etalab, a department…
Open Source Code Vault Open source code from GitHub is to be housed in an Arctic Code Vault as part of the GitHub Archive Program which aims to store and preserve open source software for posterity. The code vault is located in Svalbard, Norway, where permafrost provides near-constant extremely cold conditions. GitHub repositories are estimated to…
Please welcome two new Coko team members – javascript developers Danjela Shehi and Sidorela Uku. Danjela Shehi Danjela has been engaged mostly in development of enterprise applications with different technologies in back end and front-end for more than four years. Since 2019, she took a turn from the enterprise world to join us at Coko…
Peer Reviewing and Reproducibility The critical issues of reproducibility, reusability of mathematical models of physiological processes, and confirmation of research results are the focus of the Physiome project, a collaboration between the Auckland Bioengineering Institute (NZ) and Digital Science (UK). The project provides an open source peer review system built on Coko’s PubSweet with links to a related…
This is the first of a series of posts collaboratively written by Adam Hyde and Faith Bosworth. Expect more to come! What does it mean for a not-for-profit organization like Coko to consider ambitiously increasing its mission driven impact while building a 20 year sustainability plan? This is something we have been thinking about a…
Coko and the Open Textbook Network will come together at the University of Minnesota on December 11 for an official kick-off of the IMLS-funded multi-year project to create an open textbook platform environment to support authors. An advisory group comprised of OTN community members will share their requirements and feedback to inform the collaborative design…
Data Science Community Conference and Events Fund Small event-based grants towards conferences in the research-driven data science space will be available for the next two years from Code for Science (CS&S). This new fund is an initiative of the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation and priority allocation will be towards developing governance and selection processes…
2019 Open Publishing Awards 11 outstanding projects have been celebrated in the inaugural Open Publishing Awards, announced on 15 October in Edinburgh at FORCE 2019. The awards are an initiative of Coko, to draw attention to the innovation and diversity of the open publishing sector. Open Content awards went to Book Dash, a not-for-profit, social-impact publisher of…
The Open Publishing Awards were held last night at FORCE 2019 in Edinburgh. It was a great reception and brief ceremony with short opening speeches by Coko Founder Adam Hyde and Open Publishing Awards Judging Chair Cameron Neylon. The Judges, including Neil Chue Hong, Natasha Simons, and John Chodacki then announced the award recipients. In…
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