Sophie has been enhanced and rewritten in Java. Find user documentation, sample books and tutorials, and download the new Sophie. Sophie runs on Mac, Windows, and Linux. The latest version is Sophie 2.0.9, released July 5, 2010.
- Sophie Author allows users to create complex networked multimedia documents without specialized training.
- Sophie Reader allows readers to read Sophie books in a browser without downloading a separate application.
- Comment frames allow easily constructed spaces for discussion inside of books.
- Browser frames allow embedding fully functional web browsers in book pages.
- Sophie can import, embed, and export PDF files.
- Easy to use embedded books: Sophie books can open inside other Sophie books.
- Frame-based timelines present an easy way to create animations.
- Sophie Server allows uploading, managing, and downloading books on a server.
- Sophie Server allows simultaneous collaborative creation of books.
Sophie Developers
Learn more about developing with Sophie 2.0. Download source and find the project overview, developer documentation, and issue log.
For announcements about new Sophie releases,, meetings and publications, sign up for the sophie2-announce mailing list. You can also follow us on Twitter: we're SophieSoftware. Or see our Ning site where you can share tips and tricks about using Sophie.
Recent Sophie Workshops & Presentations:
- University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, University Libraries Scholarly Commons, Institute of Computing in the Humanities, Arts, Social Sciences, and Department of African American Studies. April 22, 2010.
- University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, English Department. April 23, 2010.
- Illinois State (Normal, IL), English Dept, April 24, 2010.
- Occidental College faculty workshop led by Dave Lopez and Holly Willis. March 2, 2010.
- University of Southern California faculty and graduate student workshops led by Dan Visel, Virginia Kuhn, and Holly Willis. March 9, 10, 11, 2010.
- CalState Long Beach English Department, led by Dan Visel, Virginia Kuhn and Holly Willis. March 12, 2010.
- THATCamp: The Humanities and Technology Camp, Los Angeles. Hands-on workshop on Sophie authoring functionality, led by Dave Lopez and Holly Willis. March 13, 2010.
- Faculty and Graduate Student Workshop: Clemson University. Hands-on workshop for 25 faculty members in the Art Department, Digital Production Department, and faculty in Rhetorics, Communication and Information Design. Mid-March, 2010.
- Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Media Literacy Panel. Sophie overview in the context of multimedia literacy, presented by Holly Willis. March 20, 2010.
Sophie 2.0 was recently featured as one of ten projects destined to impact next generation arts journalism by the National Summit on Arts Journalism, presented by the USC Annenberg School for Communication and the National Endowment for the Arts. Read more on the National Arts Journalism Program site. http://www.najp.org/summit
The Institute for Multimedia Literacy within the School of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California is seeking project proposals for exemplary Sophie 2.0 projects to be produced in collaborations between scholars and IML staff. If you have a project that would benefit from the unique compositional affordances of Sophie, and you wouldn’t mind having these become showcase projects on the Sophie 2.0 Web site, please contact Holly Willis. Include a project description and explain why Sophie 2.0 would enhance the project. hwillis@cinema.usc.edu
