Baseprints
Digital research documents disseminated across many channels.
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To learn more, you can read this document (itself a baseprint):
or try creating your own baseprint.
Reading baseprints
There are several ways to access an archived baseprint:
- Run software to retrieve a baseprint from a git repository.
- Run software to retrieve a baseprint from the Software Heritage Archive.
- Browse to a baseprint indexed by perm.pub.
- Browse to an independent website that presents a baseprint as HTML and/or PDF.
- Browse to a baseprint that has been archived at the Internet Archive.
The easiest way for readers is to visit perm.pub or an independent website that serves HTML and PDF presentations of baseprints. For example, one way to read the document "What is a baseprint?" is to browse to the URL:
https://perm.pub/HKSI5NPzMFmgRlb4Vboi71OTKYo
An application that you can run on your own computer to read archived baseprints is currently being developed. An open-source software utility and library that can convert a baseprint into a webpage and PDF file is epijats.