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Commentpress is an open source theme and plugin for Wordpress 3.3.1 or later designed to enable readers to contribute comments to each paragraph of a text and display those comments in the margins. Commentpress turns a text into a conversation, whether a blog or a fixed document such as an essay, book or article. It may also be used to add a gloss or annotations to a document. This tool is also available for BuddyPress and BP Group Blog.
Yutzu is a collaborative tool for collecting and publishing multimedia content online, offered by the Cultureplex Lab at the University of Western Ontario. It is a web environment, designed to assist in the creative process, publication and visualization, and integrating a variety of multimedia tools. Yutzu has been used to showcase work, curate exhibitions and collections, and to facilitate teaching and learning.
Pressbooks is a platform for collaboratively creating ebooks built over WordPress available as both a free service and on a subscription basis. Subscriptions are only required for users wanting to manage more than 5 books. eBooks can be generated in a variety of formats from several provided templates. Pressbooks integrates functionality for importing material from WordPress, Blogger and Tumblr, and assists in collaborative authoring with workflow management tools.
Lucidpress is a free online editor for making pamphlets, brochures, flyers, magazines, and more. Features include real-time collaboration, digital publishing, and easy sharing, all of which come in an intuitive, drag-and-drop interface. Upgrade to a professional account for increased storage space and access to additional templates.
Artifex Press is a publishing and technology company that digitally publishes catalogues raisonnés, a comprehensive, annotated documentation of all of the known artworks by an artists. They have developed a proprietary, patented software platform and a dedicated publishing program in order to create digital catalogues raisonnés. They offer both their own digital catalogues raisonnés and the ability to licence the software to produce your own projects.
Catalogues raisonnés have typically been published book but the information they contain is constantly in flux and printed versions are rarely complete and accurate for long. The online version produced by Artifex Press is more accessible, more flexible, more time- and cost-efficient, and above all, more accurate and up-to-date than the traditional printed counterpart.In addition to the digital publication, Artifex Press creates digital archives for all the artists with whom they work.
The Artifex Press software is available for licensing, for catalogue raisonné projects run by outside organizations including artist studios, foundations, and estates. The company is open to new collaborations looking to preserve the legacy and intellectual property of artists and estates.
Research & Archive Tool
Digital content management:
create links between artworks, publications, exhibitions, collectors, venues, institutions, and other relevant categories
build artwork records with data files such as title, date, medium, dimensions, inscriptions, editions, provenance, condition, installation instructions, and comments
store multiple images and private documents in each record
Web-accessible: software is available anywhere with an internet connection
Unlimited storage: there are no storage limits and performance of your catalogue is not affected by large data sets
Attention to your needs: Software has been shaped by the feedback of multiple catalogue editors, researchers, and artist studio managers to determine the most useful, practical, and intuitive tools and features
Compatibility: You can import existing databases and convert them to fit Artifex fields without losing information
Publishing Tool
Publish to a selected audience only: control your user group or make your content available to the public
Publish while withholding confidential information: define public and archive only sections of your collection
Flexible design: customize the look and feel of your catalogue including the homepage, artwork views and editorial pages
Ease of navigation: design features have been rigorously tested to ensure ease of use
Multimedia content: include any number of images, videos, audio clips, and other multimedia content
Real-time accuracy & cataloguing: by updating provenance as well as exhibition and literature histories, you can maintain the accuracy of the content; you can also expand the catalogue to include newly discovered information and newly created artworks.
Assistance: Artifex Press are available to make the editing and publishing process as easy as possible.
For more information or to set up a live tour of the software and learn about their research & editorial servces contact: info@artifexpress.com
Sigil is a free, open source, multi-platform e-book editor, designed for editing books in EPUB format.
Full UTF-16 support and full EPUB 2 spec support
Multiple views: code view (complete control over directly editing EPUB syntax), book view (WYSIWYG), and preview view
Table of contents generator, metadata editor, multi-language user interface, spell checking tool, EPUB compliance validator, support for find and replace
Import, organize, and manage EPUB and HTML files, images, style sheets, audio, video, and fonts
Resources
Source code repository
Current packages
Wiki documentation
Online user guide
Sigil's development blog
Help forum at MobileRead
Translations
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