docloop

closing a gap between review and authoring tools

Closing a gap between review and authoring tools

docloop turns feedback into tasks,
converting online annotations of a document into issues in the author's bug tracking system.

Current State

docloop works for paperhive documents and github repositories.

Use the example app to link a document to your repository. Once the link is established all annotations (and replies) will be copied to your github issue tracker. After that docloop will check periodically for the new annotations.

Ideal Use Case

Best case scenario is the author working on an open educational resource (OER) using LaTeX and publishing the source code in an online repository.

Open Educational Resources

OER are meant to be shared, forked and to incorporate reader's feedback.

Online Annotations

Lots of Feedback will be given by readers who are not familiar with the authoring tools and cant be expected to learn the ropes of the author's issue tracking system.

Online Repository

Online Repositories make it easy to share and fork content. Also: They usually come with version control and bug tracking system.

LaTeX

Having a source code makes it alot easier to fork and update documents. Turning that code into PDFs makes it easy to annotate!

Features to look out for in the future

Support for other annotion platforms, e.g. hypothes.is.
Support for other version control repositories.
Let annotaters know what happened to their Feedback. Keep them in the loop.
Add a comment to the document when an issue has been resolved.
Have issues refer to the LaTeX source code line corresponding to a comment in the PDF.

Is there a feature you would like to see on this list? Tell me :)

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