Knowledge Futures

Permanently Addressable Structured Data

What Underlay is, why it matters now, and how it works.

Updates to PubPub Login

If you log in to PubPub in the coming weeks, you'll notice a different login screen. This is expected and legitimate. We're writing this post so you can verify the change is real and understand what's behind it.

From Monolithic Schemas to Content-Addressed Types

How we made interoperability automatic by treating schemas like files.

Underlay Meets AT Protocol

Every collection is a feed. Every push is an event.

Travis Rich Returns as Executive Director of Knowledge Futures

The Knowledge Futures Board of Directors has unanimously voted to have Travis Rich return as Executive Director, effective as of the March 18, 2026 board meeting. Travis co-founded KF and served as its first ED before stepping into a Head of R&D role in 2024.…

PubPub Infrastructure: A Technical Breakdown

This post is a companion to our infrastructure transition announcement. It goes into the technical details of the cost reductions we've made.

Jeff Pooley Joins the Knowledge Futures Board of Directors

We're happy to share that Jeff Pooley has joined the Knowledge Futures Board of Directors, effective March 10, 2026.

A Path Forward for PubPub

Over the second half of last year, we focused intensely on the technical foundations of our work. That effort led to a set of infrastructure breakthroughs that reduced our server costs by more than an order of magnitude.

Not Enough: Open Infrastructure Funding and the Future of Knowledge Futures

In a difficult but necessary move, Knowledge Futures is initiating a wind-down of some key initiatives and entering a period of regrouping after a critical funder unexpectedly withdrew its support.

PubPub Platform Update: Migration and Launch Timeline, Public, Sandbox, and Documentation

In July 2024, we announced a new version of PubPub, PubPub Platform, designed to respond to changing community needs, feedback from users, collaborators, and funders, and the lessons learned from building the original PubPub Legacy. Today, we’re excited to…

Publishing Millions of Pubs

Knowledge Futures launches alpha code release of PubPub Platform

In July of this year, Knowledge Futures announced a new direction for PubPub and an accompanying plan for the organization to reach sustainability. (Please read that announcement before reading this update). Our migration from PubPub Legacy to PubPub Platform…

Workflows for Media-Rich Publications

Journals have long served as the primary mode for communicating new knowledge. But what might it look like to have infrastructure that supports a journal workflow that enables the medium to serve the message? In this collaboration with Vanderbilt Libraries, we…

Knowledge Futures invests in PubPub Platform, a new vision for full-stack knowledge infrastructure

At Knowledge Futures our mission is to make information useful. Today, Knowledge Futures announces a new iteration of PubPub, “PubPub Platform,” to improve our ability to serve that mission. With PubPub Platform, we are responding with excitement to the…

PubPub Platform Technical Overview

We are rebuilding PubPub from the ground up, with the aim to make the platform much more flexible. This explainer provides a plain-English overview of the new PubPub, known officially as PubPub Platform, and technically as v7.

Zach Verdin becomes KF’s second Executive Director and Travis Rich steps into new Research and Development role

I've made the decision, in unanimous consensus with the rest of the leadership team, to shift from Executive Director of Knowledge Futures to Head of R&D. Zach Verdin, former Head of Growth and Innovation, will be taking up the mantle of Executive Director.

Impact Repository

An Impact Repository is a digital repository designed to serve as a home for research content that falls outside the scope of traditional academic journals. A substantial portion of influential research material is often overlooked by conventional journals.…

The IR of the Future Is a Reading List

Institutional repositories don't need to be monoliths. They need to be views.

Archiving with Incremental Structuring

Organizations produce a wide variety of content and research outputs as part of their missions. Collecting, organizing, and presenting these outputs is essential for leveraging their experience and knowledge. However, the rapid emergence of new formats and…

Radical Rapid Publishing

Some research communities are fortunate to have the resources to be primary focused on the advancement of their research and field, without need to conform to unproductive publishing traditions. Such groups have been relatively rare, which means they are often…

Structured Review

Within the narrative content of every scientific publication is a richly connected structure of concepts, observations, and claims. Citations and references to related concepts, observations, and claims made by other publications extends these connections…