Capture, organize and publish media, alone or together, in the classroom, in a fablab or in a community space.
do•doc (pronounced “doo-doc”) is a free and open-source tool for documenting projects, driven by a community of designers, teachers, artists, trainers, makers and documentation enthusiasts.
Used in classrooms, fablabs, community spaces or as the engine of online platforms, it lets you capture, edit, lay out and publish media. Its design and development have been carried out by the collective l’Atelier des chercheurs since 2014; anyone can follow or take part in this work on the forum.
Alone or together, at the same time or not, capture media (sound, still images, video), import them or create them (text, drawings) from one or more devices (computer, tablet, smartphone).
Filter them by author or keyword, view them, delete them, collaborate through a built-in discussion thread, then assemble, mix and combine them before publishing them online, downloading them or sharing them directly in do•doc.
A media creation tool lets you record media (image, video, animation, sound or SVG).
A tool for organizing created or imported content lets you gather media to build a publication.
An editorial tool lets you lay out your content in different forms: page by page, story, map or multi-format edition, with PDF export.
do•doc is free and open source, released under the GNU AGPL license. The code and issues are available on our GitHub repository — feel free to contribute. We rely on standards for both development and file formats, so all content can be read and edited in other software.
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do•doc exists as a local application: it is installed on a computer that then acts as a server. When other devices (phones, tablets, computers) are on the same Wi‑Fi network as this server computer, they can all connect to the interface and work on the content together, at the same time.
To be shared or reused, this content can then be downloaded and/or published online.
do•doc also exists as an online version. We can help you set up your own instance — please contact us by email.
do•doc as a layout tool for writing and making a collaborative newspaper.
A series of three week-long workshops with different primary school classes in the Drôme (France). The theme: making a newspaper from A to Z with do•doc, in which pupils talk to us about the environment.
These workshops were run with the association Désert Numérique and video artist Sarah Brown.
do•doc as an editing tool for writing and making videos.
A series of three week-long workshops held in the Drôme (France), in the single-class schools of Cobonne and Saint-Nazaire, between April and June 2019. In these workshops, pupils produced a TV show from A to Z. Each workshop starts with an editorial meeting that decides which reports to film, and ends with a live show in front of the villagers, produced entirely by the children.
Workshops run with the association Désert Numérique and video artist Sarah Brown.
do•doc as an experimental video tool.
A week-long workshop run with Sarah Brown and Désert Numérique at the Collège Armorin in Crest (Drôme, France) with a ULIS class (Unités Localisées pour l’Inclusion Scolaire, inclusive education units). The ULIS scheme allows a small group of pupils with specific needs (language and learning disorders, autism, motor disorders, etc.) to attend primary and secondary school. During the week, the pupils become explorers of a newly discovered planet — a pretext for discovering different video techniques and making a video logbook of this exploration.
