Editoria posts

New ‘Start-up Stories’ article about Editoria published in UKSG Insights

Nov 7, 2018

Coko Publishes “New advances in open source infrastructure support: accelerated book digitization with Editoria” with UKSG Insights Clare Dean, working with Coko, has published a new ‘Start-up Stories’ article with the industry’s well-respected UKSG Insights journal. New advances in open source infrastructure support: accelerated book digitization with Editoria provides insight into how Editoria started in collaboration with…

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Inside the kaleidoscopic world of Editoria

Alison McGonagle-O'Connell Sep 25, 2018

Coko’s book production system Editoria empowers you to reimagine your workflow. You will gain efficiencies by collaborating within the browser, working in parallel on all parts of the book, leveraging automated typesetting and distribution tools. Like all Coko tools, Editoria is Open Source, which means that the code is openly available on gitlab via the…

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Announcing the Editoria Community Meeting and plans to offer a hosted solution

Alison McGonagle-O'Connell Aug 2, 2018

Coko’s open source books production platform Editoria launched this spring with many appearances at industry conferences, a webinar, a new website, and the first wave of adoption. The momentum continues into the fall as the community makes arrangements to attend the first Editoria Community Meeting. The meeting will be held in San Francisco, California during…

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Catch up with Editoria

Alison McGonagle-O'Connell Jun 27, 2018

Editoria is paradigm-shifting, and includes many features that represent serious efficiencies for university presses and library publishers, but it is also a great travel partner! From the time I joined Coko this spring, we’ve travelled back and forth across the United States together, making stops at several industry meetings (including Council for Science Editors, Society…

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The launch of editoria.pub

Alison McGonagle-O'Connell Jun 19, 2018

Coko’s open source, browser-based books production workflow tool Editoria recently launched a new web presence located at https://editoria.pub. This is the single space that university presses, library publishers and others interested in following the development of this tool and the community supporting it can go to learn more via helpful resources. This week, in celebration…

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Editoria Webinar

Alison McGonagle-O'Connell May 16, 2018

Yesterday, Coko hosted a live webinar to give interested participants an opportunity to learn more about Editoria. An overview of the Editoria origin story, a live demonstration of Editoria, presentation on Open Source sustainability, and live Q&A were included. If you missed the live broadcast, you can view it here! Note: This player will not…

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Announcing XSweet 1.0

Alex Theg May 3, 2018

Coko is thrilled to announce the release of XSweet 1.0, a open source suite of XSL tools for transforming the contents of MS Word into HTML and beyond. XSweet was developed to enable the transformation of Word documents (.docx) into digital objects for web publication and improvement. There are many benefits to moving content from…

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Engage with Editoria: How to get involved with the community

Alison McGonagle-O'Connell Apr 18, 2018

Note: This post was originally published on editoria.pub. Editoria is powered by Coko technology. There has never been a tool quite like Editoria. Several elements make Editoria unique, setting it far apart from open and proprietary tools that came before it. It was designed by subject matter experts and actual users! And the ability to…

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Hiring a community manager for books

Carly Strasser Jan 23, 2018

Coko in partnership with UC Press and the California Digital Library are hiring a Community Manager to assist with adoption of the new Editoria platform for book production. The Community Manager will manage the publisher, developer, and service provider communities for Editoria—a web-based, open source book production software built on the Collaborative Knowledge Foundation (Coko)…

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PagedMedia Announcement

Adam Hyde Dec 20, 2017

The following announcement is regarding pagedmedia.org, which is a project started by Adam Hyde, Coko CoFounder, and funded by the Shuttleworth Foundation. It is not a Coko project as such, but closely affiliated! Please distribute widely! PagedMedia Announcement PagedMedia is a project to educate and inspire publishers to use HTML, CSS and JavaScript to produce…

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