15 February 2019
eLife has announced its investment in the development of Texture – an open-source toolset for the editing and production of manuscripts, designed to be integrated into publishers’ editorial and content delivery systems.
Originally created by Substance as a JavaScript library of tools for web-based content editing, Texture has been supported by a community of organisations collectively known as the Substance Consortium and including Érudit, the Public Knowledge Project (PKP) and SciELO. eLife has now invested in Texture’s development to support its own open source publishing platform, but – as with the organisation’s other open source projects – any new features will be added to the tool in such a way that they can be repurposed by other publishers.
The work on Texture is being carried out in line with an open roadmap, currently available to view as a public Trello board.