[ATTW-L] ACS Article on Teamwork & Collaborative Software

[Cagle, Lauren]

Hello all,

I thought this recent article from the American Chemical Society on the development of software to support team writing and collaboration might be of interest to some tech comm and rhetoric of science folks. Link and abstract:

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acscentsci.9b00111

"The Center for Genetically Encoded Materials (C-GEM) is an NSF Phase I Center for Chemical Innovation that comprises six laboratories spread across three university campuses. Our success as a multi-institution research team demanded the development of a software infrastructure, GEM-NET, that allows all C-GEM members to work together seamlessly—as though everyone was in the same room. GEM-NET was designed to support both science and communication by integrating task management, scheduling, data sharing, and collaborative document and code editing with frictionless internal and public communication; it also maintains security over data and internal communications. In this Article, we document the design and implementation of GEM-NET: our objectives and motivating goals, how each component contributes to these goals, and the lessons learned throughout development. We also share open source code for several custom applications and document how GEM-NET can benefit users in multiple fields and teams that are both small and large. We anticipate that this knowledge will guide other multi-institution teams, regardless of discipline, to plan their software infrastructure and utilize it as swiftly and smoothly as possible."

Happy Monday, all!
Cagle

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Lauren E. Cagle, PhD


Assistant Professor | Writing, Rhetoric, & Digital Studies, University of Kentucky<https://wrd.as.uky.edu/>

Program Faculty | Environmental and Sustainability Studies, University of Kentucky<https://ens.as.uky.edu/about-faculty>

Second Vice-President | Association for Rhetoric of Science, Technology, and Medicine<http://www.arstmonline.org/>

University of Kentucky

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