This document provides an overview of Scalar, an online publishing platform. It describes key elements like pages, media, paths, annotations, and tags. It explains the basic process of adding content by putting in data and organizing to create relationships. It also covers sharing options, collaboration features, importing media, and editing capabilities like annotating images and video. Additionally, it discusses book structure using paths and tags, table of contents, and layout options for customizing the look and feel.
7. Sharing|Users Tabs
Sharing
• Default is private, but you
can make public or make
viewable via link (but not put
in the index)
Collaboration (Book Users Tab)
• You can have multiple
authors
• Comments are possible and
share or not, moderate or
note
8. Basic Principles:
“Anything is Anything”
• Mantra #1 Everything is a page (a media object is a
page, tag is a page)
• Mantra #2 Anything can be linked to anything else.
1. This makes it different from most publications (print
or web) in that a multimedia can be an annotation,
the annotation can be a page in its own right, or
could be a tag!
2. Great possibilities for linear and non-linear writing
13. Horizontal Links/Partner Archives/
Context
• Media is hosted elsewhere (video especially)
• You can upload 2mb or less (e.g. images, but can
upload larger images to flickr, google drive, dropbox
and use the url to upload).
• Practically, this means you don’t have to pay for huge
server space, and your video will play!
• Your media is not ripped from context
• Partner archives: Internet Archives, Shoah Foundation,
Critical Commons, etc.
21. Front Page
• Default blank page as front page (named index)
• You can make any page a front page by going to
dashboard>pages> edit the default index page
(rename the url or delete)
• Edit url of page you want as front page> name:
index> save
22. Scalar and Structure (relationship tab
at bottom of page when editing)
• Paths – connection as sequence,
can be linear or can branch or
loop, pages in a sequence
• Remember anything can be a
page (so anything can be a path/
sequence – all annotations) But
may want to create a page to
start a path (so that it sets it out
by topic_
• Tags, not a sequence, non-
hierarchical structure
35. Front Page
• Default blank page as front page (named index)
• You can make any page a front page by going to
dashboard>pages> edit the default index page
(rename the url or delete)
• Edit url of page you want as front page> name:
index> save