You may be interested in looking at www.jcse.org - we allow for readers to
add comments to the text (the locations at which comments can be inserted is
defined by javascript code in the original document, so it could, for
example, be one comment per line of a poem).
The code is home-brewed ASP, which we could release if it is felt to be of
value.
Bob Cottis
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> Sent: 06 April 2005 12:02
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> Subject: Collaborative Annotation Tools
>
> Hello
>
> I am interested in finding an annotation tool for asynchronous
> collaborative
> use online.
>
> A lecturer at my institution has expressed an interest in posting on the
> web
> say, a poem which students can then read for themselves and annotate as a
> group.
>
> Features which we may be interested in:
>
> - ability to lock regions from editing
> - ability to annotate annotations
> - clear threading of annotations and their replies.
> - name contributors
> - ability to print
> - version control (and possibly rollback)
>
> Other functionality that might also be useful:
>
> - controlled access
> - public/private reading option
> - granular permission model (so you can see but not change, when a
> discussion has come to it's end).
>
>
> So far we have looked into the comment feature in Word and Adobe Acrobat,
> however the license fee for the latter does rather rule that out and the
> need for a particular version for some of these features and lack of
> version
> control in the former mean that it is not ideal. A wiki of some sort may
> be
> a better option.
>
> Can anyone recommend or point me towards any existing tool which might
> solve
> this problem?
>
> Many thanks in advance
>
>
> Matthew Taylor
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