Bioacoustics
Species outreach
Open hardware to record wildlife in the field, with schematics, BOM and gerbers published. We go all the way back to where the data comes from: what had no written form acquires one.
See the project page →A technology publishing house
We publish research: the site, the data, the instrument and the book.
A book, an environmental case file, the song of a species. We turn scattered research into something you can consult, cite and reuse.
Open call · no closing date
Donate your old phone: it becomes a scientific instrument
Any brand, as long as it works and has Wi-Fi. It goes to the bioacoustics network and to OpenRackPhone’s distributed computing.
Four moments, one craft
We do not start where the research ends. We come in earlier: at the instrument that records, at the archive nobody has sorted, at the manuscript with no shape yet. And we stay past publication, once the work is out there and has to be kept alive.
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Capture
We design the instrument when it does not exist: field sensors, forms, integrations with data sources. If the content has no shape yet, it starts here.
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Edit
Copy-editing, translation, layout, document structure. The publishing craft of always, applied to case files and datasets too.
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Publish
Microsites, web applications, open APIs, printed and electronic books. Every piece of work goes out through the medium that suits it.
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Disseminate
ISBN and legal deposit, accessibility, open data, events. Publishing is not the end: the end is someone reading it and being able to cite it.
Two lines of work, one standard
We work with people who have something to say and no way to publish it. Authors, research groups, environmental agencies, public bodies. The content changes; the craft does not.
Book publishing
We are a registered publishing house. We handle the ISBN with the Cámara Colombiana del Libro, the legal deposit and the whole process of editing, design and printing. We also represent authors and organise launches, workshops and panel discussions.
Publishing services →Outreach systems
Research microsites, document management, open data publishing and field instrumentation. Free software when the project allows it; a service we operate when that makes more sense. Every card states which is which.
Outreach systems →What we have published
Not every project is a book. These are the ones that best explain what we do.
OrpycaMCP
Document management
A free tool to manage, version and search large bodies of documents. Published under AGPL-3.0, with an open repository.
See the project page →GrafPin
Archive and open data
Ephemeral heritage documented before it is lost: a map, a timeline for each wall, and a public API that exposes the archive in open formats.
See the project page →appAves
Field instrumentation
A reused phone turned into an autonomous monitoring station, identifying species on the device itself and sending nothing to the cloud.
See the project page →The ground we stand on
EX-CRIBE SAS is a publishing house registered in Bogotá with the Chamber of Commerce. Its registered purpose runs from editing and publishing to building software for document management. This is not a recent addition: it has been in the articles of incorporation since day one.
- A registered publisher
- CIIU 5811 — Book publishing. ISBN and legal deposit handled by us.
- No vendor lock-in
- What we build can be audited, migrated and maintained without us.
- Your personal data
- Handled in accordance with Ley 1581 de 2012 and Decreto 1377 de 2013.
- Truthful information
- Every card states its licence and its model, with no borrowed language.
Under construction
The application that gave us our name
Before the publishing house there was the idea of a place where anyone could publish what they write, be it one sentence or a book. We are still building it: it cannot be used yet, and we are not promising a date.
Got something unpublished?
A manuscript, a research archive, a dataset only you ever look at. Tell us what it is and we will come back with a concrete proposal: what gets published, in what medium and on what terms.
Let’s talk