Agenda

General overview (5 mins)

• Brief history: What is PubPub? How did it get started at MIT?

  • Part of Knowledge Futures Group

  • Communities on the platform

    • can view some here (and many linked to below)

• Where is PubPub heading?

  • roadmap overview

Use for Publishing

• Catherine D’Ignazio and Lauren Klein, Data Feminism (10-15 mins)

• Jeff Ravel, CFRP (10-15 mins)

• Overview of other community types (10 mins)

  • Other communities

    • Collaborative books:

      • Phone and Spear

      • Sustainability Science 

    • Presses:

      • Media Studies Press

      • punctum books

      • MIT Press

    • Preprints: AfricArXiv

  • Journals

    • Harvard Data Science Review

    • Graduate Journal of Food Studies

    • Projections

    • Sonic Scope 

    • Cursor

  • Conferences

    • #SpreadingFacts

    • MetxMicrosoftxMIT Hack

  • Other

    • Iowa State University Museums

    • MIT OA Task Force

Use for teaching and in classrooms (10 mins)

• Frankenbook

• Topology

• Awareness

Resources and how to use PubPub yourself (10 mins)

• Anyone can create a community!

• Help.pubpub.org

• pubpub.org/explore

• Questions?

Contact: Catherine Ahearn, head of content
catherine@knowledgefutures.org, help@pubpub.org