Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Publication Date

6-27-2012

Publication Title

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Abstract

Wiki-like or crowdsourcing models of collaboration can provide a number of benefits to academic work. These techniques may engage expertise from different disciplines, and potentially increase productivity. This paper presents a model of massively distributed collaborative authorship of academic papers. This model, developed by a collective of thirty authors, identifies key tools and techniques that would be necessary or useful to the writing process. The process of collaboratively writing this paper was used to discover, negotiate, and document issues in massively authored scholarship. Our work provides the first extensive discussion of the experiential aspects of large-scale collaborative research.

Keywords

collaboration, crowdsourcing, scholarship, writing

First Page

11

Last Page

20

DOI

10.1145/2212776.2212779

Rights

© 2012 ACM.

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