RE: A simple Annotation System
"Laurent Denoue" <[email protected]>
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Hello, I did a similar program during my PhD (Yawas, available from http://www.univ-savoie.fr/labos/syscom/Laurent.Denoue/) but the implementation you have looks much better. However, as far as I can tell from the screenshot, I think you could improve something: - instead of a single icon at the beginning of the selected passage, I think it would be nice to anchor the original selection, say with a highlighted color like in Yawas or with two icons like CritLink. - let users search for keywords IN THE SELECTIONS - present the results of the search engine with a document summary. One of my results with Yawas is that the simple concatenation of the selected passages in a document are good to summarize it (when the highlights have been created by the person searching at least) - when browsing annotations, again it would be nice to use the selected passages to represent the document. Now, you simply display the document URL. A simple solution would be to display the selected passages when you mouse over the document URL in the list. I also have a few questions: - how did you manage to annotate PDF documents? Do you simply annotate the whole document or can you select some text as well? - can you annotate part of a picture or only the whole picture? How do the annotations appear in the original document? Very nice work! Laurent. > -----Original Message----- > From: Venkatasubramani S [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2002 8:17 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: A simple Annotation System > > > > > > Hi, > We, at NCST Bangalore, have developed a simple > annotation system. The > following are some of the functionalities supported : > > 1) Making Annotations on ANY resource that can be viewed in a > browser ( > Currently only MS Internet Explorer is supported ) > 2) Storing annotations locally/posting to a central server > 3) Viewing annotations (Local & from one/more annotation servers) > 4) SEARCHING for annotations > 5) Replying to annotations made by others. > > The client is a plug-in for MS Internet Explorer (a > toolbar & a explorer > bar). The annotation server was developed in Java. > > For more details, please visit > http://www.ncb.ernet.in/groups/dake/annotate/ > > Thank you. > > > > Venkatasubramani S, > R & D Staff Scientist, > National Centre for Software Technology, > Bangalore - 561 229, > India, > Ph : +91-080-8523300 Ext 2422, > URL : http://www.ncb.ernet.in/~venkat/ > > > > > >