1. Dummy editorial¶
This is a dummy issue, intended for viewing how an issue and an article could look. It includes 3 article entries:
- The first article discusses and gives examples of including videogame artifacts in articles.
- The other two are versions of the same article which was written originally in Markdown format, and then compiled and submitted as PDF (to DiGRA 2023):
- The MANUSCRIPT version is the author’s working document (before citation keys are rendered to bibliographic references).
- The COMPILED version includes citations and bibliographic references, compiled via Pandoc according to a citation style and a bibliography as per the workflow described in article⁄Markdown bibliographic referencing workflow.
- The article contains:
- title (dummy title)
- abstract
- keywords
- author’s preamble (as submitted)
- 11 figures with caption
- 1 table with caption
- 2 lists
- 34 endnotes
- multiple links
- citations and bibliography
View and save PDF versions of these articles open the following print entries using Chrome and do Ctrl/Cmd+P, or select Print:
- embed example article at print⁄Print Including Playthings in Articles.
- compiled sample article at print⁄Print Sample Markdown Article COMPILED 🖶.
2. Why Hugo-Sandpoints over other platforms¶
Journal features for a visitor/contributor
- Journal contributions are natively digital (and thus can include material that cannot be printed or accomodated in PDF, e.g. a/v files and other attachments, hyperlinks, and embedded iframes). This is unlike most journals, including the OJS platform where the articles are downloadable PDF files (not available to read online).
- Contributions can be rendered into interactive, and printable PDFs (the same for whole issues, and the whole journal, including in these cases interactive TOC).
- Features a ⁄library that can host all kinds of ebook formats, and also ZIP files, for example of playable or other software. Library items can be cited and referenced from journal entries.
- Sandpoints has 3-level parenting for organizing content, here Journal>Issue>Article, while Articles are associated with Contributors, and Issues with Editors. All content can be viewed in the ⁄sitemap.
- No proprietary software is required by authors for submitting articles (e.g. Word; although Word files can be converted to Markdown).
- Mobile friendly, lightweight, and fast.
Platform features
- The whole journal platform is purposefully built as open infrastructure for experimental collaborative publishing.
- All components are open source, all workflows to run/maintain the journal or contribute content are open and don’t require proprietary software, from either editors or contributors.
- Static websites are lightweight, fast, and resilient. They don’t require any server-side processing (PHP), since they are explicit HTML (content), and CSS (styling) files, which is neither costly (as processing or download size) for the website visitor.
- Hugo sites are easy to maintain.
- Low overhead compared to other platforms (the current website is about 40mb excluding the library).
- Backup and collaboration achieved via Git.
- Fully customizable, and much easier to do so compared to Wordpress (both as styling and functionality).
- Sandpoints is a non-commercial project by developer and former academic Marcell Mars, designed and developed specifically for experimental publishing. Marcell is very supportive (providing help and support, and also is hosting the website and its repository on his server)
- Sandpoints was already implemented in a few projects, including the www⁄Journal Dotawo since issue 7, and the www⁄ACADIA conference archive which includes 3.500 entries.