Assisting ‘Independent SAGE’ in innovating rapid publishing for COVID-19. Volunteer now!

The working group is looking for volunteers and resources to help with the rapid publishing, dissemination, and Citizen Science innovation for Independent SAGE publications.

#iSTPWG Home Tasks Roadmap chat using Element (Riot) - room #iSTPWG:matrix.org download the Element client.

We’re looking for volunteers with the following skill sets to join the working group:

• librarians for metadata;
• editors for proofing production;
• technical IT - Markdown, Git, DevOps, XML, Jekyll/Hugo, Kubernetes and Terraform, etc.;
• publishing production managers;
• data scientists and Jupyter Notebooks;
• open project GitHub/Lab setup and wrangling;
• graphic design & web design - CSS;
• Wordpress UX/UI, and;
• Citizen Science researchers.

If you’re interested in volunteering, or have a question or comment join us on Gitter chat, or you can DM Simon Worthington on Twitter @mrchristian99 or email publications@independentsage.org.

Roadmap: Multi-format publish the report back catalogue; Put in place a ‘Rapid Publishing’ workflow for future reports, and; Develop a Citizen Science programme for publications. [More]

We made an example publication in August to settle in the workflows, see: Should Schools Reopen?

Should Schools Reopen? Independent SAGE Report #2

Open video call

There will be an open video call on Jitsi at 17 Sept. 17:00 UTC if you want to find out more about the working group.

Our workflows and publishing ethos

All software is free and open source, all content open licenced, and we use Open Science practices: open data, open methods, open standards, open learning, and inclusiveness.

For publishing technology we are platform independent (agnostic) and instead use open interoperable formats and transformations: XML, JATS, BITS, MECA, PubFair COAR, W3C standards., PIDs, off-piste Markdown, and even Blockchain (yes we found a use for it — time stamps!).

Report back catalogue workflow

Rapid publishing pipeline

About us: ‘indie_SAGE Technical Publishing Working Group #iSTPWG’

A group of Open Science volunteer organised as a working group to assist indie_SAGE in rapid — multi-format, multi-channel publishing. iSTPWG carries out technical and publishing tasks and is not involved in the authoring of the reports scientific work. If you have an enquiry about the reports scientific contents please contact Independent SAGE. The working group team leader is Simon Worthington, email publications@independentsage.org Twitter @mrchristian99.