Yesterday, we launched Archipelagos Issue No. 9. Essays are amazing, but I wanted to talk also about the changes to the platform, which may be of general interest to all scholars who want to or run an academic journal. First, this is a static site (low maintenance, low cost, low security issues) 🧵
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It was built originally with the Jekyll static site generator, and now migrated to Eleventy.js. Here's what the new version has:
a) Full accessibility suite and tests for people who use screen readers;
b) Full search using Fuse.js
c) Robust metadata for discovery systems (Scholar, etc)
d) Full test suite for HTML integrity, dead links, etc.
c) Converter from Docx to markdown (variation on Pandoc)
e) Production workflow through GitHub actions
f) Improved navigation and PDF access at the item level
g) Better social media card game (optimized for Bluesky and WhatsApp)
