Upwelling: Combining real-time collaboration with version control for writers.

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Collaborative writing tools don’t work well for writers or editors. With Upwelling, we demonstrate a design that gives writers privacy while still offering editors transparency into how a document is changing.

Problems with existing collaboration tools Professional non-fiction writing often requires several people – authors, editors, and reviewers – to work together in order to produce a finished document. For example, several journalists and editors may contribute to a news article, a group of scientists may collaborate on a research paper, and in business or government the members of a team may jointly write a proposal, report, or documentation. In all of these cases, it is important for the contributors to ensure that the final document is of a high quality, correct, and consistent in both conten

Upwelling: Combining real-time collaboration with version control for writers.

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