Aggregating and curating scholarship from, or on, the open web. Is it possible? Why should we do it? And how? Let's get together to discuss and play with this approach to publishing.

Aggregating and curating web content can be a way to identify new projects for formal publication, distribute work related to your own area of expertise, or share important information within a community. We can talk about the why, and then move on to the how. What is the range of sources and various models? What tools are available?

For the play component, I can demonstrate and provide access to a sandbox with our new PressForward plugin (https://github.com/PressForward/pressforward/wiki/About) , which offers an RSS Reader, collaborative editorial tools, and the ability to republish from within a WordPress dashboard. And if there's interest and time, we can choose some RSS feeds and new content in order to create our own curated publication during the session.

I'd love to get together and discuss models for collaborative scholarly publishing initiatives, like those that have been established at places like Michigan, Indiana, and Penn State. How are such collaborations structured? How do these collaborations change the nature of work that the participants (e.g., press staff, librarians) do? How do these collaborations change the missions of the involved organizations? What type of infrastructure is necessary to go the way of collaboration for publishing endeavors at a specific university? How do you rally support for such an initiative? How are tech assets roped in and funded? 

I'm interested in learning how various publishing operations—large and small, academic and trade—handle the production process from after a manuscript is handed off from acquisitions till you send it to the printer or make a digital product available.

What parts of the process do you do in house, and what parts are handled by freelancers or vendors?  Do you review the work done by outside parties, and if so, do you review exhaustively or only sample the work to check for quality?

At what stages do you involve the author/editor?  Do any freelancers or vendors interact with authors/editors directly, or do you always mediate the communication?

Note that I have a morning flight and will arrive late to the planning session, but hopefully this gives you enough to go on.

Here's how we do things, as an example:
    
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