Department of Health Sciences Faculty Articles
Editing a Book on the World-Wide Web With 29 Collaborators in 8 Countries in 12 Months: A Case in Survival Tactics
Document Type
Article
Publisher
Springer New York LLC
ISSN
0743-3808
Publication Date
6-1996
Keywords
Large-Scale Writing, Writing Project, Close Interactions, Conference, Cross-Fertilization of Ideas
Abstract
We describe the techniques that we devised to enable authors who had never met physically to collaborate on a large-scale writing project. The goal was to use the Internet to simulate the close interactions that are possible in a traditional conference to foster cross-fertilization of ideas and to increase the coherence of the book we were writing. We discuss areas that should concern those who consider using the Internet for collaborative work.
DOI
10.3758/BF03204752
Volume
28
Issue
2
First Page
145
Last Page
148
Disciplines
Medicine and Health Sciences
NSUWorks Citation
Levy, Michael C. and Ransdell, Sarah Ellen PhD, "Editing a Book on the World-Wide Web With 29 Collaborators in 8 Countries in 12 Months: A Case in Survival Tactics" (1996). Department of Health Sciences Faculty Articles. 250.
https://nsuworks.nova.edu/hpd_hs_facarticles/250
