Collaborative & Connected Scientific Writing

Abstract

Summary In the world of software, engineers and developer are empowered but tool chains that help them craft, re-use, share and build on their previous work and the work of others. That process of extending and remixing previous work is integral to the software power leaps in technology that we see around us. Imagine equipping scientists with a tool chain of their own? customised to their needs and enabling in the same way re-use, sharing, remixing and rapid publication. Such a tool chain could well take us towards a tipping point in open science. At Curvenote we are building such a toolchain, by connecting scientists' writing directly to their computational tools and through a collaborative environment, we help stop wasted time and effort, make it easier to build on previous work and provide a traceable path from a figure in a paper back to the code and data that produced it. Such a tool chain can both accelerate progress and significantly improve reproducibility of work.