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Paper Now: Create, edit and display a journal article entirely in GitHub

64 points by bpierre 12y ago

colincsl 12y ago
I don't know much about PeerJ but I'm intrigued by their efforts as a publishing company to foster open collaborations like this.
Rondom 12y ago
For people interested in collaboration on papers I strongly recommend Overleaf. It supports both Git and online in-browser editing of the Latex-Source with PDF-preview (which is sometimes a bit slow, but they are working on that). https://www.overleaf.com https://www.overleaf.com Shameless plug: If you like the service and want to register anyways, you can use my reflink ;-) https://www.overleaf.com/signup?ref=a6702e8ee331 https://www.overleaf.com/signup?ref=a6702e8ee331
motoboi 12y ago
Why GitHub Import instead of clonning?
- ryanthejuggler 12y ago
  Assuming you mean 'forking': my guess would be that if you fork it, it would look like you're making contributions that could be merged back into the original project. If you import it then it will appear as a completely separate project.
hunglee2 12y ago
Github social authoring seems to be a thing at the moment. Airpair are doing something similar, and throwing money at it https://www.airpair.com/100k-writing-competition https://www.airpair.com/100k-writing-competition For those who are interested
anilgulecha 12y ago
The guys at substance.io have a fantastic editor in a similar vein, but they have been slow on opening it up, due to which it's probably seen a lot less traction than it should. Here's a random example of what their reader can do: http://lens.elifesciences.org/06351/ http://lens.elifesciences.org/06351/ The cool thing is they've written a wysiwyg whose data format is json (across browsers).
- wodenokoto 12y ago
  That's pretty slick, though the right-hand column is too wide and it breaks the back button.
  - anilgulecha 12y ago
    The right hand isn't a sidebar. The interface is a split-in-middle, with left being main content, and right providing ancillary data.
stcredzero 12y ago
Git is fantastic for dealing with text and code. Of course this sort of collaborative work would be very powerful with papers, with far reaching implications for our society. (Like the democratization of science.) Someone needs to do analogous things with sound and video, probably using a centralized repository. (I don't know if Soundcloud has that sort of thing now.)
wakeless 12y ago
There is significant friction from changing to anything that isn't Word (PDF/Latex to a lesser extent) in this space. I wonder what it is going to take for that monopoly to be broken

64 points by bpierre 12y ago

I don't know much about PeerJ but I'm intrigued by their efforts as a publishing company to foster open collaborations like this.

Rondom 12y ago

For people interested in collaboration on papers I strongly recommend Overleaf. It supports both Git and online in-browser editing of the Latex-Source with PDF-preview (which is sometimes a bit slow, but they are working on that). https://www.overleaf.com https://www.overleaf.com Shameless plug: If you like the service and want to register anyways, you can use my reflink ;-) https://www.overleaf.com/signup?ref=a6702e8ee331 https://www.overleaf.com/signup?ref=a6702e8ee331

motoboi 12y ago

Why GitHub Import instead of clonning?

ryanthejuggler 12y ago
Assuming you mean 'forking': my guess would be that if you fork it, it would look like you're making contributions that could be merged back into the original project. If you import it then it will appear as a completely separate project.

hunglee2 12y ago

Github social authoring seems to be a thing at the moment. Airpair are doing something similar, and throwing money at it https://www.airpair.com/100k-writing-competition https://www.airpair.com/100k-writing-competition For those who are interested

anilgulecha 12y ago

The guys at substance.io have a fantastic editor in a similar vein, but they have been slow on opening it up, due to which it's probably seen a lot less traction than it should. Here's a random example of what their reader can do: http://lens.elifesciences.org/06351/ http://lens.elifesciences.org/06351/ The cool thing is they've written a wysiwyg whose data format is json (across browsers).

wodenokoto 12y ago
That's pretty slick, though the right-hand column is too wide and it breaks the back button.
- anilgulecha 12y ago
  The right hand isn't a sidebar. The interface is a split-in-middle, with left being main content, and right providing ancillary data.

stcredzero 12y ago

Git is fantastic for dealing with text and code. Of course this sort of collaborative work would be very powerful with papers, with far reaching implications for our society. (Like the democratization of science.) Someone needs to do analogous things with sound and video, probably using a centralized repository. (I don't know if Soundcloud has that sort of thing now.)

wakeless 12y ago

There is significant friction from changing to anything that isn't Word (PDF/Latex to a lesser extent) in this space. I wonder what it is going to take for that monopoly to be broken