November 3
Collaborative Editing Tools
11:00am – 12:00pm
Bass Library L01 (lower level of the library)
In recent years a number of very powerful tools have become available to enable collaborative work and collaborative writing and editing. Scott Matheson, Web Manager at the Yale University Library, will talk about the work the Library has begun recently with Sharepoint, a collaboration tool from Microsoft, to make documents and lists available to workgroups. The tool is flexible and integrates well with existing desktop tools like Outlook, Excel and Word. See how you can use some of the tools in Sharepoint (also available from Yale ITS) to work with groups on editing documents and tracking lists.

Michael Farina, Senior Lector in Italian, will discuss a number of collaborative text editing tools beyond the Library’s Sharepoint software. He will introduce a number of alternatives and solutions for collaborative writing, including TextFlow, DocVerse, EtherPad, doingText, WriteWith, WriteBoard, and TokBox. Alternatives such as these have finally allowed us to move beyond sharing documents through email for the coordination and editing of collaborative writing and co-authored articles.