“One could elaborate on the “histories, presents, and possible futures” of textual artefacts and writing processes in general that the Book Sprint experience brought to mind. One might think of Kerouac’s “first thought, best thought” versus Flaubert’s monthlong polishing of a ... read more
Free and easy to update university textbooks, available in multiple formats? They exist. We’re working on one right now. Book Sprint facilitator Barbara Rühling and trainee Faith Bosworth are in British Columbia, Canada, working on the production of a Geography ... read more
http://data.booksprints.net/books/OnBookSprints-pdf.php The above is for version 1.1 of On Book Sprints. Produced during a 4 day Book Sprint in May 2014.
The second Book Sprint held by Times Up (Linz, Austria) was held in the first week of June, facilitated by Barbara Rühling. Eleven futurists gathered in a large Austrian ‘villa’ (mansion) on the banks of Lake Attersee to follow up ... read more
The last Book Sprint as part of the Book Sprints for ICT Research project was held recently in Nice, France. We typically discourage interviews or other processes that will take focus away from the Book Sprint energy and focus. However ... read more
The Digital Publishing Toolkit conference “Off the Press” was held in Rotterdam in the last week of May, 2104. Two presentations featured Book Sprints, the first was by Adam Hyde and touched on Book Sprints as a methodology within the ... read more
We have just created a repo on github for some experimental work on a framework for collaborative knowledge production. There are two repositories as it happens, one is PubSweet which is a rough and ready simple tool for collaborative production ... read more
Today Adam Hyde presented at the Digital Publishing Tool Kit conference at the Boijmans Museum in Rotterdam, Netherlands. The topic was “Books are Evil”. Tomorrow Adam presents at The Next Chapter conference in Stockholm on the topic “Collaborative Knowledge Production”.
After 4 short but arduous days in a Book Sprint on Book Sprints we are proud to release the results. On Book Sprints v1.0 EPUB is available here. We will produce a 1.1 and PDF later this week. Contributors: Rachel ... read more
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