The process of authoring, reviewing, and publishing scholarly articles remains an expensive, time-consuming process that can require significant up-front investment and technical expertise. Coupled with lengthy review processes this can create delays of up to a year before new scientific findings are published. Annotum, a new, open-source, open-access authoring publishing tool based on the WordPress content management system, builds on the earlier work of the Public Library of Science's Currents publication and provides an easy-to use alternative to existing publishing systems that supports very rapid expert review and professional online publishing. Annotum is a production of Solvitor LLC with heavy lifting provided by Crowd Favorite, and special thanks to: Google, PLoS, NIH/NLM/NCBI, and Automattic. Annotum is free. More information: http://annotum.wordpress.com Download: http://github.com/Annotum/Annotum/downloads

1. An open-source scholarly authoring and publishing platform based on WordPress

2. New models of scholarly communication

4. PLoS: Currents on knol.google.com

10. Timeline (original) Kickoff Detailed Requirements Complete Beta VIP Migration Ongoing Walk-throughs Mid-project Review Wrap-up Task Jan-11 Feb-11 Mar-11 Apr-11 May-11 Jun-11 Jul-11 Aug-11 Sep-11 Task 1: Setup Task 2: Requirements Task 3: Implementation (2-week sprints) Task 4: Launch Task 5: Support 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

11. Timeline (current) - Challenges Sprints 7 and 8: Editor and XML Output

13. Demo

16. Annotum vision: a “knowledge ecosystem”