| A Systems View of Annotations (2000) | |||||||||||||||
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| Motivated by our design of an annotation system (Notable), we have developed a framework for annotation systems, based on dimensions of the platform used to create the annotations, the platform used to read them, the annotations themselves, the targets of the annotations, and the correspondence between annotation and target. We demonstrate the framework by using it to compare 10 different annotation systems, and to find unexplored possibilities in the design space. INTRODUCTION The notion of `annotation' refers to many different practices. It refers to highlighting words in a text, placing marks or words in a margin, attaching PostIt ^TM notes to objects, publishing an annotated edition of an important work, etc. The term `annotation' has also been used to describe more formal activities, such as assigning metadata to a literary work. As Marshall points out, even a photograph of a sky tucked into a meteorology textbook might be called an annotation [3]. With the growth of digital med... | |||||||||||||||
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