Synchronized editing: the future of collaborative writing

Publishing date: 2020-05-12

Published on: Nature

summary: Draft scientific manuscripts tend to be confidential, however this article presents the approach of Olga Botvinnik who managed her paper like a piece of open-source software. She wrote it in a plain-text editor and placed text files alongside data sets and code for generating figures on the code-sharing site GitHub. She then invited her four co-authors to submit edits using Git, software that tracks precisely how and when a file has been changed.

authors: Jeffrey M. Perkel

link to paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00916-6

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