Open collaborative writing with Manubot | Daniel S. Himmelstein, Casey S. Greene, Anthony Gitter
peter.suber's bookmarks 2018-06-30
Summary:
"This manuscript was automatically generated from greenelab/meta-review@083a349 on June 18, 2018. The permalink for this manuscript version is https://greenelab.github.io/meta-review/v/083a349c57cbf4acdb72ebe438a19ae28fb11b74/. ...
Abstract: Scientific literature reviews are ideal for open, collaborative writing. Allowing any interested individual to contribute as an author can strengthen a review, providing broad and fair coverage of the subject matter. However, the traditional multi-author writing process breaks down at scale. We present techniques for overcoming the challenges of open manuscript writing. These include approaches for managing distributed authors and our new software, named Manubot, for automating citation and manuscript building...."