“Massively distributed authorship of academic papers” is the title of a paper presented in 2012 at the annual ACM conference on human factors in computing systems (CHI 2012) held in Austin, Texas.
It was authored by a group of thirty researchers, led by Bill Tomlinson of the University of California, Irvine; they worked on the Internet, using several different collaborative tools and techniques, to experiment with a model of massively distributed collaborative authorship of academic papers. This model identifies key tools and techniques that would be needed or helpful in the writing process. The collaborative writing process was used to discover, negotiate, and document issues in massively authored scholarship and provided the first in-depth discussion of the experiential aspects of large-scale collaborative research.
Keywords: collaborative writing, collaboration, writing, crowdsourcing, scholarship, human factors, computing systems, Google Docs, Etherpad, PiratePad, Dropbox, Zotero, alt.chi, mdaap
List of authors:
- Bill Tomlinson
- Joel Ross
- Paul André
- Eric P. S. Baumer
- Donald J. Patterson
- Joseph Corneli
- Martin Mahaux
- Syavash Nobarany
- Marco Lazzari
- Birgit Penzenstadler
- Andrew W. Torrance
- David J. Callele
- Gary M. Olson
- Six Silberman
- Marcus Ständer
- Fabio Romancini Palamedi
- Albert Ali Salah
- Eric Morrill
- Xavier Franch
- Florian ‘Floyd’ Mueller
- Joseph ‘Jofish’ Kaye
- Rebecca W. Black
- Marisa L. Cohn
- Patrick C. Shih
- Johanna Brewer
- Nitesh Goyal
- Pirjo Näkki
- Jeff Huang
- Nilufar Baghaei
- Craig Saper
D.O.I.: 10.1145/2212776.2212779 (ACM Digital Library)
