Dear Matthew,
At first I thought a simple Blog may do the job and wouldn't require much
technical knowledge to use. However, the other features you mention do
sound more like a wiki. Take a look at "wiki" in wikipedia and follow the
links to try some out - there are lots of flavours now with numerous
features but they do require some technical knowledge, especially to set up
unless you go for a hosted option.
Good luck
Tim
At 20:02 06/04/2005, you wrote:
>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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