Massively distributed authorship of academic papers

  • Authors:

  • Bill Tomlinson;Joel Ross;Paul Andre;Eric Baumer;Donald Patterson;Joseph Corneli;Martin Mahaux;Syavash Nobarany;Marco Lazzari;Birgit Penzenstadler;Andrew Torrance;David Callele;Gary Olson;Six Silberman;Marcus Stünder;Fabio Romancini Palamedi;Albert Ali Salah;Eric Morrill;Xavier Franch;Florian Floyd Mueller;Joseph 'Jofish' Kaye;Rebecca W. Black;Marisa L. Cohn;Patrick C. Shih;Johanna Brewer;Nitesh Goyal;Pirjo Näkki;Jeff Huang;Nilufar Baghaei;Craig Saper

  • Affiliations:

  • University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California, USA;University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California, USA;Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA;Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA;University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California, USA;The Open University, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, UK;University of Namur, Namur, Belgium;University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada;University of Bergamo, Bergamo, Italy;Technische Universität München, Garching, Germany;University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, USA;TRLabs Saskatoon, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada;University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California, USA;Bureau of Economic Interpretation, Berkeley, CA, USA;Technische Universit#1086t Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany;Methodist University, Sao Paolo, Brazil;Boäziçi Üniversitesi, Istanbul, Turkey;University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California, USA;Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain;RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia;Nokia Research Center, Palo Alto, California, USA;University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California, USA;University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California, USA;University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California, USA;frestyl;Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA;VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland;University of Washington;Unitec;University of Maryland - Baltimore County

  • Venue:
  • CHI '12 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
  • Year:
  • 2012

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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.