Publishing peer-reviewed digital series and providing a reliable, institutionally supported, and editorially regulated venue for preserving and disseminating digital data and creative digital works, with full control by authors of how their data is organized and which data is made public on the Web.
Publishing peer-reviewed digital series and providing a reliable, institutionally supported, and editorially regulated venue for preserving and disseminating digital data and creative digital works, with full control by authors of how their data is organized and which data is made public on the Web.
Publishing born-digital volumes that integrate narrative text and datasets. Publishing digital companions to supplement traditional print publications.
The OPS is located at the University of Chicago and is supported by managing editors, developers, data scientists, digital librarians, and domain-area digital specialists.
OPS publications are available for free. Datasets are also available for download and analysis. All publications share a common digital framework in the OCHRE database.
The Online Publication Service is situated in the Forum for Digital Culture at the University of Chicago. The Forum is the center and meeting place for digital arts and humanities at the University of Chicago. The Forum for Digital Culture supports projects in every branch of the arts and humanities through all phases of the project, from the initial acquisition of the project’s data through the stages of managing, analyzing, and publishing the data and then archiving it in a standards-compliant fashion so it is preserved long into the future.
The OPS takes a database approach to digital publishing. All data is modeled and managed in the Online Cultural and Historical Research Environment (OCHRE). The OCHRE platform is a tightly integrated suite of computational tools for working with all kinds of data through all stages of research, from initial acquisition to final archiving of the data. OCHRE provides a seamless environment in which it is easy to move from one stage of research to the next.
The Online Publication Service is supported by experienced computational and domain-area professionals at the University of Chicago. Staff at the OPS are members of the Forum for Digital Culture and benefit from a vibrant community of scholars, staff, and students. The OPS also partners with staff at the University of Chicago Library to provide citability, discoverability, and durability to publications.