Introduction

We live in a golden age where data can be transmitted at speed to almost anywhere on the planet, yet modern scientific publishing, and indeed much of the research process languishes in a time where the printing presses ruled. It is long past time that these processes and publication practices were modernized---there is no need to publish PDF tables and static images in an age where advanced JavaScript applications can run on cell phone browsers using hardware accelerated rendering in 2D and 3D with augmented and virtual reality beginning to take a foothold.
It is time for a paradigm shift, moving towards fully digital workflows where all steps of a research project are documented. To that end the authors of this paper have been developing an ambitious open source to realize the dream of open science in a fully connected digital age. PDFs and flat images are relics of the past, attempts to map the limitations of the printing press to the digital world. It is time to push forward scientific publishing, and drive innovation in software to a point where interactive data outputs can be published for the whole world to see. We must look at the technologies available in the modern web browser to offer seamless