Inspiration from OBFs Manifold Seminar

[studiojulienmchardy]

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*Notes on development*

@SimonXIX I was feeling inspired about our book project while listening to the manifold seminar today
https://compendium.copim.ac.uk/practice_seminars
. Especially around how media items can be collated in different groupings that act as visual mini essays.

Juncture Question inspired by the manifold seminar:

• Can we have resource collections, or think about how we order, display resources in ways that build alternative visual essays.
• How can we order resources?
• Tags are nice, but grouping resources is also nice.
• How do collections relate to chapters
• Can we have QRs from the print book to the digital edition.

[james-l-smith]

A few initial thoughts here:

• By keeping the essays free floating but ordering them in a 'monograph' sequence, each micro essay can both have its own document and be part of a sequence (this would be no harder than concatenating the markdown docs in a specific order.
• Media collections can be their own essay - for example, it is possible to create an 'essay' that is an image gallery - it can sit between two text blocks or function on its own
• Juncture (and markdown) can handle iframes to embed any media it can't handle natively and html also works within Markdown (although anything differing from the style sheet would then need styling for that element)
• For now the book will be digital only (and first), but I would see ideas about unique features for a print edition (a gathering in the style of the combinatorial book model) would be a case for funding it