Skip to content
@aris-pub

Aris Program

Infrastructure for the post-PDF era. Modular tools for web-native research publishing. Supported by community donations and academic grants. Community-governed.

Aris: Infrastructure for the Post-PDF Era

Building web-native tools for academic publishing. Open source, community-governed, designed for developers and researchers.


Our Projects

Scroll Press — Modern Preprint Server

A web-native preprint server with format freedom. Publish from Typst, Quarto, MyST, Jupyter, or any tool that produces HTML.

Tech: FastAPI • PostgreSQL • HTMX • Jinja2 Status: Beta Links: Live SiteExamples

RSM Studio — Collaborative Editor

Reference implementation and collaborative editor for RSM (Readable Science Markup). Write semantic documents that preserve meaning and render beautifully everywhere.

Tech: Python • VueJS • Collaborative Editing Status: Development Links: Live Site

RSM — Readable Science Markup

The markup language powering semantic, portable academic documents. Lightweight syntax with rich mathematical and scientific notation support.

Tech: Python • Tree-sitter Status: Active Development


Our Principles

Every tool we build follows these foundations:

Universal — Works on any device, for any user. No platform lock-ins. Portable, accessible.

Transparent — Built on open standards. Everything is exportable and versionable. You own your work completely.

Interactive — Research is conversation. Enable dialogue, feedback, and knowledge that builds over time.

Inviting — Beautiful, effortless developer experiences. Well-documented APIs, clear architecture, intuitive patterns.


Contributing

We welcome contributions across all projects:

  • Press: Fully community-owned. All contributions welcome — features, bug fixes, documentation.
  • Studio: Community-maintained reference implementation. Bug reports and maintenance contributions accepted.
  • RSM: Core language development. Proposals and improvements welcome.

See individual repository CONTRIBUTING.md files for specific guidelines.


Governance

Press is fully community-owned — open source with shared governance, forever free.

Studio and RSM are community-maintained reference implementations, with bug reports and maintenance contributions accepted.

We're supported by community donations and academic grants, not venture capital. This funding model lets us prioritize researcher and developer needs over investor returns.


Community


Philosophy

Academic publishing is trapped in formats designed for paper, not pixels. We're building the infrastructure for how research should work in the digital age: accessible everywhere, preserving context, enabling real collaboration.

LaTeX and PDF were revolutionary for print. It's time to build the next generation of tools for the web.



Building tools as thoughtful as the knowledge they preserve.

Browse ProjectsJoin CommunityVisit aris.pub

Pinned Loading

  1. press press Public

    Modern preprint server for web-native research. Format freedom (Typst, Quarto, MyST, Jupyter), instant publication, permanent URLs. Fully community-owned.

    Python

  2. website website Public

    Landing page and blog for Aris

    CSS

  3. examples-press examples-press Public

    Example papers showing how to create self-contained HTML for Scroll Press (Typst, Quarto, Jupyter, RSM)

    HTML

Repositories

Showing 7 of 7 repositories

People

This organization has no public members. You must be a member to see who’s a part of this organization.

Top languages

Loading…

Most used topics

Loading…