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open source, free software, publishing technology, next generation publishing, open science, open scholarship, collaborative bibliographies, book liberation, free culture, design research, rapid prototyping, methods, archive publishing
Germany, United Kingdom

Biography

Simon Worthington is a book liberationist. He is a member of the Open Science Lab at the German National Library of Science and Technology, where he is editor of Generation Research, an open science blog, as well as a researcher in semantic publishing for NFDI4Culture — part of the German national research infrastructure consortium. He studied Fine Art at the Slade School, UCL and CalArts.

As of 2019 he is a Board Member of FORCE11 an organisation for the future of scholarly communication. He has worked as a research author for the Akademienunion at the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften on ‘AGATE’ a research publication for scoping the technical data connection of all of Europe’s Academies of Arts and Science digital repositories.

From 2012/15 he led the research unit ‘Publishing Consortium’ as part of the Hybrid Publishing Lab at Leuphana University, Germany.

In 1994 he co-founded and published Mute magazine — a culture and technology publication, the European counter to Wired magazine, and continues as a member of the editorial collective and as publisher.

He originally studied Fine Art at the Slade School, UCL (UK) and CalArts, Los Angeles (USA).

https://twitter.com/mrchristian99 @mrchristian99 | Generation Research https://genr.eu/ | The Book Liberation Manifesto http://linkme2.net/1gs

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Employment (2)

Technische Informationsbibliothek (TIB): Hannover, Niedersachsen, DE

2017-10-15 to present | Open Science Lab
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Union der deutschen Akademien der Wissenschaften: Berlin, Berlin, DE

2017-04-01 to 2017-06-31 | Mitarbeiter - researching database design and report writing (AGATE Aufbau eines europäischen Akademienportals)
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Works (41)

Automating Exhibition Catalogue Creation

Community-led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs (COPIM)
2023-04-28 | Journal article
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Designing an Open Peer Review Process for Open Access Guides

Community-led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs (COPIM)
2022-05-10 | Journal article
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Book Coding - teaching

2017 | Other
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Hybrid Publishing Consortium - Website

Hybrid Publishing Consortium
2017 | Other
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Book Coding - template files

2017-07 | Other
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AGATE: Concept for a European Academies Internet Gateway for the Humanities and Social Sciences

2017-06 | Report
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The McLuhan Digital Resource: fonds and scholar’s works on McLuhan archives

2017-06 | Conference paper
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Hybrid Publishing Group - Blog, various

Hybrid Publishing Group
2016 | Other
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Collaborative Bibliographies: Radical Publishing - The Mute Archive

2016-12 | Other
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Archive Architectures: Transmedial Publishing Interfaces for Open Learning Systems

Scalar Journal
2016-08 | Journal article
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Hybrid Publishing Portfolio

HYBRID PUBLISHING GROUP
2016-03 | Other
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Bureau for Book Liberation: workshop series

2015 | Other
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Collaborative Libraries (bibliography)

2015 | Other
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Hybrid Publishing Group - main website

Hybrid Publishing Group
2015 | Other
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Reseach Viewer - validated repository

Reseach Viewer
2015 | Other
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Research Viewer - realtime validation prototype

2015 | Other
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Future for the Annotation of Digital Objects

2015-05 | Other
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Hybrid Lecture Player: Finally Getting the Message: McLuhan's Media Practice

2015-04 | Other
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Hybrid Player

2015-04 | Other
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Marshall McLuhan Archive - Archive Sprint

2015-04 | Conference paper
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Traces on the Archive

HPC Research Repository
2015-04 | Other
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Template This!

2014-03-02 | Conference paper
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Simon Worthington › Hybrid Publishing Lab Notepad

Hybrid Publishing Lab Notepad
2013 | Other
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Dynamic Publishing–New Platforms, New Readers! Hybrid Publishing Consortium

2013-08 | Report
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Real-time? Collaborative editing

Hybrid Publishing Lab Notepad
2013-08 | Other
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Video and Open Source (M)OOCs, Video Vortex Workshop Hybrid Publishing Consortium

VIDEO VORTEX #9 – RE:ASSEMBLIES OF VIDEO
2013-03-02 | Conference paper
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Progressive Publishing

Spingerin
2012 | Journal article
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dOCUMENTA (13) a non-capitalist internet. A book sprint

2012-07 | Other
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Tech Tools for Activism: Tech Tools for Activism: tools to help reclaim the future

2012-05 | Other
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Proud to be flesh: a Mute magazine anthology of cultural politics after the Net

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Mute magazine graphic design

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Picopeering Agreement v1.0

2008-02 | Report
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The Metamap of Surveillance and Security: A Buckminster Fuller Dymaxion Projection

2001-09 | Other
Part of ISBN: 978-1-906496-99-9
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Book to the Future - A Book Liberation Manifesto

Book
ARXIV:

https://github.com/consortium/hybrid-publishing-research/tree/master/docs/book\_liberation\_manifesto

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I read where I am: exploring new information cultures

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Open Education: A Study in Disruption

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Publication taxonomy: an initial guide to academic publishing types, inside and beyond academe.

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The Mag.net reader 2: between paper and pixel

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The Mag.Net Reader 3 - processual publishing

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The Mag.net reader: experiences in electronic cultural publishing

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TheKnowledge: digital strategy in culture

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