Updates from Knowledge Futures — posts, demos, and the work our community is running on.https://www.knowledgefutures.org/en-ushttps://www.knowledgefutures.org/updates/2026-09-29-knowledge-systems-built-for-purpose/https://www.knowledgefutures.org/updates/2026-09-29-knowledge-systems-built-for-purpose/How we work now, what we build, and why purpose-built infrastructure is now feasible for communities of any size.Tue, 29 Sep 2026 04:00:00 GMTNewshttps://www.knowledgefutures.org/updates/2026-06-08-content-addressed-records/https://www.knowledgefutures.org/updates/2026-06-08-content-addressed-records/Applying the insight that already works for schemas and files to the records themselves.Mon, 08 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMTR&Dhttps://www.knowledgefutures.org/updates/2026-04-crossref-collaboration/https://www.knowledgefutures.org/updates/2026-04-crossref-collaboration/For many years, PubPub has made it possible for communities to assign DOIs to a range of outputs and component Pubs. Knowledge Futures and Crossref are building together to test the limits of what’s possible for high-volume, high-granularity DOI management. That means fast prototypes, real building,…Mon, 08 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMTNewshttps://www.knowledgefutures.org/updates/2026-06-08-permanently-addressable-structured-data/https://www.knowledgefutures.org/updates/2026-06-08-permanently-addressable-structured-data/What Underlay is, why it matters now, and how it works.Mon, 08 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMTR&Dhttps://www.knowledgefutures.org/updates/2026-05-pubpub-login-changes/https://www.knowledgefutures.org/updates/2026-05-pubpub-login-changes/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.Wed, 27 May 2026 04:00:00 GMTProducthttps://www.knowledgefutures.org/updates/2026-04-30-schema-evolution/https://www.knowledgefutures.org/updates/2026-04-30-schema-evolution/How we made interoperability automatic by treating schemas like files.Thu, 30 Apr 2026 04:00:00 GMTR&Dhttps://www.knowledgefutures.org/updates/2026-04-28-atproto-integration/https://www.knowledgefutures.org/updates/2026-04-28-atproto-integration/Every collection is a feed. Every push is an event.Tue, 28 Apr 2026 04:00:00 GMTR&Dhttps://www.knowledgefutures.org/updates/2024-04-27-underlay-revived/https://www.knowledgefutures.org/updates/2024-04-27-underlay-revived/The landscape changed. The project can finally be simple.Mon, 27 Apr 2026 04:00:00 GMTProducthttps://www.knowledgefutures.org/updates/2026-04-travis-rich-executive-director/https://www.knowledgefutures.org/updates/2026-04-travis-rich-executive-director/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. Zach Verdin, who took over as ED at that…Mon, 20 Apr 2026 04:00:00 GMTNewshttps://www.knowledgefutures.org/updates/2026-04-pubpub-cost-savings-breakdown/https://www.knowledgefutures.org/updates/2026-04-pubpub-cost-savings-breakdown/This post is a companion to our infrastructure transition announcement. It goes into the technical details of the cost reductions we've made.Mon, 06 Apr 2026 04:00:00 GMTR&Dhttps://www.knowledgefutures.org/updates/2026-04-pubpub-infrastructure-transition/https://www.knowledgefutures.org/updates/2026-04-pubpub-infrastructure-transition/In January, we shared our plans to cut PubPub's infrastructure costs and put the platform on a path to long-term sustainability. That transition is now complete.Mon, 06 Apr 2026 04:00:00 GMTProducthttps://www.knowledgefutures.org/updates/2026-03-jeff-pooley-joins-board/https://www.knowledgefutures.org/updates/2026-03-jeff-pooley-joins-board/We're happy to share that Jeff Pooley has joined the Knowledge Futures Board of Directors, effective March 10, 2026.Thu, 12 Mar 2026 04:00:00 GMTNewshttps://www.knowledgefutures.org/updates/2026-01-update/https://www.knowledgefutures.org/updates/2026-01-update/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.Mon, 12 Jan 2026 05:00:00 GMTNewshttps://www.knowledgefutures.org/updates/2025-06-update/https://www.knowledgefutures.org/updates/2025-06-update/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.Mon, 23 Jun 2025 04:00:00 GMTNewshttps://www.knowledgefutures.org/updates/2025-04-platform-update/https://www.knowledgefutures.org/updates/2025-04-platform-update/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 provide an update on the status of the new…Mon, 14 Apr 2025 04:00:00 GMTProducthttps://www.knowledgefutures.org/updates/2024-10-earthbiogenome/https://www.knowledgefutures.org/updates/2024-10-earthbiogenome/Tue, 01 Oct 2024 04:00:00 GMTR&Dhttps://www.knowledgefutures.org/updates/2024-09-platform-update/https://www.knowledgefutures.org/updates/2024-09-platform-update/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 is an extended, collaborative process…Mon, 23 Sep 2024 04:00:00 GMTProducthttps://www.knowledgefutures.org/updates/2024-09-ameriquests/https://www.knowledgefutures.org/updates/2024-09-ameriquests/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 aim to find out.Sun, 01 Sep 2024 04:00:00 GMTR&Dhttps://www.knowledgefutures.org/updates/2024-07-pubpub-platform/https://www.knowledgefutures.org/updates/2024-07-pubpub-platform/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 lessons we’ve learned over our many years of…Wed, 17 Jul 2024 04:00:00 GMTProducthttps://www.knowledgefutures.org/updates/2024-07-platform-tech-overview/https://www.knowledgefutures.org/updates/2024-07-platform-tech-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.Wed, 17 Jul 2024 04:00:00 GMTR&Dhttps://www.knowledgefutures.org/updates/2024-07-ed-transition/https://www.knowledgefutures.org/updates/2024-07-ed-transition/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.Wed, 17 Jul 2024 04:00:00 GMTNewshttps://www.knowledgefutures.org/updates/2024-04-impactrepository/https://www.knowledgefutures.org/updates/2024-04-impactrepository/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. These materials are often not simply…Wed, 01 May 2024 04:00:00 GMTR&Dhttps://www.knowledgefutures.org/updates/2024-04-27-institutional-repositories/https://www.knowledgefutures.org/updates/2024-04-27-institutional-repositories/Institutional repositories don't need to be monoliths. They need to be views.Sat, 27 Apr 2024 04:00:00 GMTR&Dhttps://www.knowledgefutures.org/updates/2024-04-archivingwithincrementalstructuring/https://www.knowledgefutures.org/updates/2024-04-archivingwithincrementalstructuring/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 content complicates the process of…Mon, 01 Apr 2024 04:00:00 GMTR&Dhttps://www.knowledgefutures.org/updates/2024-04-radicalrapidpublishing/https://www.knowledgefutures.org/updates/2024-04-radicalrapidpublishing/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 left without established norms for…Mon, 01 Apr 2024 04:00:00 GMTR&Dhttps://www.knowledgefutures.org/updates/2024-04-structuredreview/https://www.knowledgefutures.org/updates/2024-04-structuredreview/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 outward, making a rich graph that connects…Mon, 01 Apr 2024 04:00:00 GMTR&D