Editoria Overview
The Open Source
Scholarly Monograph Production Platform
Some screenshots and videos are provided in this presentation.
Please check Coko gitlab for more information:
https://gitlab.coko.foundation/editoria
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The Birds Eye View
Book
Dash
Book
Builder
Wax
Editor
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There are basically 3 components - Book Dash, Book Builder, and the Editor.
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The editor is built with Substance.io libs and is fully customisable. We call the editor 'Wax' or 'Wax Editor'
Login
Login (standard PubSweet component)
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The login component is a standard PubSweet Login component
Book Dash
Common Book Dash. User sees only the books they are working on.
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The Book Dash displays all the books that the user is assigned to.
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Production Editors only can create and delete books (note: for different Publishers roles and permissions can be customised).
Book Builder
Book Builder (empty).
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The above shows an empty (new) Book Builder.
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The Book Builder is divided into three divisions - Front Matter, Body, Back Matter.
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The language for the Book Builder is taken from the Chicago Manual of Style.
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There is one 'meta' category of content - a component.
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Components can be chapters, parts, or a front or back matter component.
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The Book Builder supports drag and drop components, as well as creating, renaming, and deleting components.
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If connected to an INK instance it is possible to upload docx files into chapters, or to upload an entire book (see video later in the slide deck).
Book Builder
Book Builder with chapters and parts in place.
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The blue half circles on the left indicate that the component has content.
Book Builder
Changing the type of component in the Front Matter.
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Front and back matter components can be named from a preset drop down list.
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Alternatively you can name the component anything you like.
Book Builder
Chapter lock in action (other user editing ch2)
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When a user edits a component (eg. a chapter) then that chapter is locked and no other users can edit it while the lock is in place.
Team Manager
Team Manager (per book, only accessible by Production Ed).
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Every book has a team. This can be changed per publisher.
Wax Editor
Wax Editor. Editing Chapter 2.
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Wax is a very sophisticated editor. It supports:
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Record (track) changes
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Chapter notes
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Comments
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Styling with named styles only
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Sliding notes pane
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Diacritics
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- Many more features to come.
- The layout for Wax is customisable.
- The entire feature set for the editor is configurable.
Wax Editor
Record Changes in action.
Wax Editor
Comments in action.
Wax Editor
Notes pane moved by the user to provide more space.
Wax Editor
Text styled with Epigraph.
Wax Editor
Warning before navigating away from unsaved chapter.
Dash
Team Manager
Component Actions
Bulk MS Word Upload
The editor in action
Coming Features
- Keyboard shortcuts
- Track changes UI refactor
- EPUB output
- Book formatted PDF auto generation
- Output to ICML
- Tables support
- Math support
- Image manager
- Index builder