In 2012-2013 a team led by Ray Siemens at the Electronic Textual Cultures Lab (ETCL), University of Victoria, in collaboration with Implementing New Knowledge Environments (INKE), developed three annotated bibliographies under the rubric of social knowledge creation. The items for the bibliographies were gathered and annotated by members of the Electronic Textual Cultures Lab (ETCL) to form this tripartite document as a resource for students and researchers involved in the iNKE team and well beyond, iincluding at digital humanities seminars in Bern (June 2013) and Leipzig (July 2013).

This article focuses on the features and challenges of Iter Community (IC), a new collaborative research environment which aims to aid social knowledge creation for the communities that have formed around Iter’s discovery tools and publication platforms. The underlying vision of IC as a flexible environment for communication, exchange, and collaboration is explained via the history and conceptual framework of IC, preliminary details concerning its infrastructure and features, and a brief examination of the Social Edition of the Devonshire Manuscript as an IC pilot project.

“Social knowledge creation,” an emergent area of research interest for digital humanists, promotes experimental critical interventions into more traditional knowledge production processes. The Electronic Textual Cultures Lab at the University of Victoria with Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (University of Toronto Scarborough) have iteratively prototyped a Web-based platform for social knowledge creation called Iter Community. This article discusses the platform’s implementation as a critical intervention in scholarly production and publication, specifically how it provides new opportunities for research and serves as a model to allow for greater involvement of scholars and the public in knowledge creation.

Keynote lecture for the Networks of Design * meeting of the Design History Society Falmouth, Cornwall, 3 rd September 2008 Bruno Latour, Sciences-Po * I thank Martha Poon for having kindly corrected my English and suggesting many useful changes.

This article reflects on the first six months of funded research by the Renaissance Knowledge Network (ReKN), focusing especially on the possibilities for interoperability and metadata aggregation of diverse digital projects, including but not limited to Early English Books Online—Text Creation Partnership; the Iter Bibliography; the Canadian Writing Research Collaboratory; the Advanced Research Consortium network; Editing Modernism in Canada; the INKE working groups; and several other, smaller projects. This article also considers how internetworked resources and a holistic scholarly environment should incorporate and build on existing publication and markup tools. Key to this process of facilitating new forms of scholarly production are including possibilities for middle-state publication; exporting both primary and critical content; and forming new types of technologically facilitated scholarly communities.

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This report has been prepared under the auspices of a Commonwealth Secretariat initiative to support the advancement of education for sustainable development, with a particular focus on the interests of small island developing states. The author is grateful to have had the opportunity to contribute to this important agenda, and would like to express sincere thanks to all of the individuals and organisations who have contributed to this research, especially those in the ministries of education who responded to my requests for information. These contributions have been made both directly, through phone calls and correspondence, and indirectly, by making reports and presentations available online for public consumption. A list of those who have contributed directly to the study is included by name in Appendix B, and the lengthy list of documents which generous individuals and organisations have made available is included in the references. There are also a number of key individuals whose indirect support was invaluable, as they provided additional contacts and leads to follow up with. These individuals reflect the spirit of collaboration and sharing which is so important to our common future. In addition to those individuals named in the appendices, the author would also like to thank Jonathan Penson of the Commonwealth Secretariat for his technical guidance in the framing of this study and his support in liaising with the governments of the focus countries, as well as Kari Donovan and Shannon Bow of Agriteam Canada for their administrative support.The Commonwealth Secretariat gratefully acknowledges the reviewers of the draft of the report, who made their considerable expertise available at very short notice but who nonetheless provided such astute and considered comments. They are