The Dissemination of Scholarly Information: Journals, Open-Access and Distributed Filtering

Current methods of disseminating scholarly information focus on the use of journals who retain exclusive rights in the material they publish. Recently there has been increasing dissatisfaction with this model, with suggestions for alternative approaches such as "Open Access".

Introductions and kick off

Hello, I’m Simon Horrobin. I’m working on a couple of projects which are ATproto relevant… one to handle sport and health data, the other for managing publishing workflow. Both of these need privacy to varying degrees. I think about this in a few axes… who can create, view, edit, delete, grant, revoke, all over time and state.

Publishing · Standard Reader

Wire a personal site's own site.standard.* records by hand.

Representing groups in ATProto

I wanted to add book clubs to my GoodReads-like app (Collective), but ATProto doesn't have a standard way to handle shared group resources yet. So I'm building opensocial.community—a separate service that manages groups independently from any single app. This means the same book club could potentially work across multiple apps (imagine your book club having both a reading list in Collective AND a discussion forum in another app), and groups can migrate between providers if needed. It's probably over-engineered for my use case, but might help other ATProto developers building community features.

Representing groups in ATProto

I wanted to add book clubs to my GoodReads-like app (Collective), but ATProto doesn't have a standard way to handle shared group resources yet. So I'm building opensocial.community—a separate service that manages groups independently from any single app. This means the same book club could potentially work across multiple apps (imagine your book club having both a reading list in Collective AND a discussion forum in another app), and groups can migrate between providers if needed. It's probably over-engineered for my use case, but might help other ATProto developers building community features.

Paperbnd

A social network for book lovers.

From Albums to Streams: How Modularity Changes Systems

Scientific publishing is breaking under document-centric formats designed for a physical world. Borrowing from music’s shift from albums to streaming, we make the case that open access alone cannot deliver reuse, trust, or scale. The future of science depends on modular, interoperable research components that move across tools, enabling new workflows, tools, and ecosystems.

The Cypherpunk Library

A personal collection of good public-domain reads. Free to read, free to keep.

FeatherReader — read, quietly

Subscriptions, folders, stars, and read-state are written as open-standard community.lexicon.rss.* records in your atproto PDS — portable to any reader that speaks the lexicon. Leaving is as easy as arriving.

Three schemes for shared-private storage - Paul's Leaflets