The Open Textbook Network and Coko kicked off a collaboration on December 11, 2019, at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. The two communities came together to address a shared problem: Helping authors write and design an open textbook. Together, over the next three years and supported by IMLS funding, they will be designing 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…
More faculty will be able to create their own open textbooks thanks to a National Leadership Grant for Libraries from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) to support a collaborative project led by the Open Textbook Network (OTN), in partnership with Coko. “A National Platform for Authoring Open Textbooks” seeks to lower barriers…
With many spring meetings on the calendar, the small but mighty Coko team is busily moving about the world to do what we do best – facilitate collaboration of forward thinking publisher communities! Last week, we enjoyed a successful Editoria Community Meeting in San Francisco, California. This is our second such meeting, and it took…
The Editoria Community’s vision is to leverage a books-optimized workflow built with PubSweet to streamline workflow, save costs and expedite production workflow. Over the past year, dozens of organizations across library publishers and university presses have experimented with Editoria. Many of these organizations have participated in providing feedback, and even proposing features for release in…
In recent weeks, Coko co-founder Adam Hyde has been busily hopping ponds to bring innovation to publishers via Workflow Sprints in Santa Barbara, California for punctum books, and Cambridge, UK for Open Book Publishers. Workflow Sprints deploy a collaborative methodology for rapidly designing content production workflows, called The Cabbage Tree Method, to facilitate the design of…
The Collaborative Knowledge Foundation (Coko), together with its fiscal sponsor, Aspiration, announce a one year grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation enabling the continued development of the technology and community surrounding the Editoria platform. Editoria is a browser-based book production workflow system that has been built using open source technology. Editoria is the result…
We’re pleased to announce the release of XSweet 2.0, Coko’s docx-to-HTML conversion tool. XSweet is a highly customizable, modular tool for converting MS Word files (.docx) into HTML for publishing to the web, or importing into other platforms. Coko uses XSweet to import author Word files into its book production and journals platforms, and XSweet…
The Coko family includes the brand-new initiative Paged Media, created by Adam Hyde this year to explore granular control over pagination in browsers. The initiative yielded Paged.JS, which is a dynamic export option in use within Editoria. To get here, a team of experts had an extremely productive year! Read all about it in this…
Over the last month, there have been big advances in the Editoria community. Community members from University of California Press, California Digital Library, Paged Media and Coko collaborated to document Editoria, facilitated by Book Sprints’ CEO Barbara Rühling. Across three days, the book was written, edited in, and exported from Editoria. A helpful guide for…
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