Book 1: Scholarly Infrastructure & Governance Patterns

Purpose
This book documents patterns for designing, governing, and sustaining the shared infrastructure that supports immersive learning as a scholarly field.

It focuses on how repositories, publishing systems, libraries, standards, and governance models enable immersive learning artifacts—such as XR experiences, datasets, and multimodal scholarship—to function as durable, citable knowledge rather than isolated projects.

What Belongs Here

• Open access and repository governance patterns
• Library-led stewardship and infrastructure partnerships
• Sustainability and funding models for immersive scholarship
• Standards, metadata, and interoperability patterns
• Collaborative and community-governed publishing models

What Does Not Belong Here

• Individual platforms or tools (unless abstracted into patterns)
• Technical implementation details
• Case studies without pattern extraction

Early Anchor Pattern

• Collaborative Open Scholarly Infrastructure