Community-driven publishing technology.
The Collaborative Knowledge Foundation (Coko) builds modular, open source publishing software using collaborative development to ensure the technology underlying research communication enables innovation and rapid publishing.
Partnerships + modern, digital-first technologies
Coko works with leading publishers, partners, & developers to build modular, digital-first technologies that produce living, networked publications rapidly and cost-effectively. Our PubSweet framework is a set of interoperable components that can be assembled and reassembled to create different publishing platforms. It provides the core building blocks from which publishers can develop workflows.
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Editoria
Streamlining monograph publishing requires developing scalable, standards-based technology solutions. University of California Press & the California Digital Library turned to Coko to build a solution for the entire publishing community.
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The open source offering: free to use, easy to change
Open source is about sharing software, the software is free to use. In itself this is a very powerful offering, but open source also allows you to repurpose and change the software to suit your needs, often referred to as ‘reusability’. In theory, this gives you the freedom to integrate the software with your own…
Community = Transformation
Open source succeeds when it’s driven by the community using the technology. Coko supports a diverse ecosystem of coders, user experience designers, platform service providers and publishers. Together we are actively building on one another’s work to replace legacy technology silos and create new interoperable solutions.
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Our Funders
Coko’s work is supported by the Laura and John Arnold Foundation, the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, and the Shuttleworth Foundation.
