Database as Book

Governance of DOIs

The stakeholders involved (Sun Microsystems, the International DOI Foundation, R.R. Bowker, and elite U.S. universities) reflect a closed circle of influential Western institutions....Read more

2025_April11_Slides ROAC

I used these slides during the 2025 Radical Open Access Conference to speak about the "Database as Book" project.Read more

Rapporteur and Observational Notes from Nov 28, 2024 RDS Collective Event

These rapporteur notes focus on high-level summary of the talks and points raised during the discussion on Nov. 28, 2024. The second half of the report describes the activities of the day and includes observational notes by the publisher who acted as a participant observer.Read more

"Database as Book" Proposal

This is the application proposal submitted to the call for experimental books by COPIM in early 2024.Read more

Read More of "Database as Book"

Database as Book is an experimental publishing project that reimagines what a scholarly book can be when built as a living, collaborative database. The project seeks to support new forms of scholarly communication that are open, dynamic, and rooted in local contexts. This...Read more

Alternatives Imagine Knowledge as a Public Good

A comparison between the ARK system and the DOI makes their contrasting design logics unmistakably clear. ARK is built on the principle that knowledge should function as a public good—...Read more

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