eLife recently joined a consortium of organisations committed to supporting Substance, a JavaScript library of tools for web-based content editing.
As an open-source project first started in 2010, Substance provides the building blocks for realising custom text editors and web-based publishing systems that are critical in establishing an open-source ecosystem for knowledge creation and dissemination. The developers behind Substance – Michael Aufreiter and Oliver Buchtala - were key to the 2013 release of the eLife Lens Reader. They have also helped to introduce Texture, a toolset for the production of scientific content, Stencila, an open office suite for reproducible research and Archivist, a platform for publishing interactive historical documents. In 2016, the Public Knowledge Project (PKP), the Collaborative Knowledge Foundation (CoKo), SciELO and Érudit formed a consortium committed to the integration and sustainability of the Substance tools.
The Substance Consortium invites other organisations to join. More information is available at: http://substance.io/consortium.
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