Department of Health Sciences Faculty Articles

Title

Editing a Book on the World-Wide Web With 29 Collaborators in 8 Countries in 12 Months: A Case in Survival Tactics

ISBN or ISSN

0743-3808

Volume

28

Issue

2

Publication Date / Copyright Date

6-1996

First Page

145

Last Page

148

Publisher

Springer New York LLC

DOI Number

10.3758/BF03204752

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.

Disciplines

Medicine and Health Sciences

Keywords

Large-Scale Writing, Writing Project, Close Interactions, Conference, Cross-Fertilization of Ideas

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