UpStage is one of four open source creative communities that are being studied as part of the Digital Manual project, by Dr Penny Travlou, a cultural geographer, and Dr Smita Kheria, a legal scholar in intellectual property law and copyright, at the University of Edinburgh.

The full title of the project is ‘Creation and Publication of the “Digital Manual”: Authority, Authorship and Voice’, and it aims to look at how the Digital Manual can be a paradigm for exploring multi-authorship, co-creation and publication in other digitised textual forms as well as how it can have relevance to the analogue book and serve as a premise to learn valuable lessons.

The other communities in the study are Fake Press, FLOSS Manuals and Sauti ya Wakulima.

For more information and to follow the progress of the study, visit the project web site here: https://sites.ace.ed.ac.uk/digital-manual/.