Awesome. Will give it a try =)
[]'s Pedro Markun On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 10:00 AM, Rufus Pollock <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi All, > > I've just put up a announce about a new 'annotator' library for inline > online web annotation we've been working on for open shakespeare for > the last year or so: > > <http://okfn.org/projects/annotator/> > < > http://blog.okfn.org/2010/11/12/open-source-annotation-toolkit-for-inline-online-web-annotation/ > > > > Regards, > > Rufus > > ## Excerpt > > In collaboration with Nick Stenning, I've been developing an annotator > project [annotator] to create a new, simple javascript (+ backend) > library for web-annotation. Our main goals were (and are): > > * **Annotation of *arbitrary* text ranges** > * **Annotate** any web (html) document > * **Easy to use** -- 2 lines of javascript to insert this in your > web page/app etc > * **Well-factored and library-structured** -- easy to integrate and > easy to extend > > Nick's has been responsible for writing all of the frontend (i.e. the > annotation stuff you actually see!) while I've developed the backend > annotation store. > > The system is completely app-agnostic and is incredibly easy to use -- > adding annotation to your web page only requires one line of jquery > javascript (assuming a backend is set up): > > > $('#your-element-id').annotator() > > **Interested?** Below are links to project information including the > source code and docs and mailing list. We're especially eager to get > feedback from those looking to integrate into other apps or who would > like to help develop the library features. > > ### Project Info > > * [Official project home page][annotator] > * [Mailing list](http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-help) > * Email us directly at *annotator [at] okfn [dot] org*. > > ### Source code > > * Javascript library: <http://github.com/nickstenning/annotator> > [docs]( > https://github.com/nickstenning/annotator/blob/master/README.markdown) > * Backend: <http://github.com/nickstenning/annotator-py-store> > [docs]( > https://github.com/nickstenning/annotator-py-store/blob/master/README.markdown > ) > * SQL + Python backend > * Alpha couchdb backend > > ### Features > > * Open JSON-REST annotation protocol - simple JSON and REST-based > * Javascript (jquery-based) library for inserting inline annotations > in a given document supporting this protocol > * One or more backends implementing this protocol (emphasis on > backends that are easy to deploy using standard tools e.g. using sql > database or couchdb) > * Really simple: just do (jquery-esqe) $('myelement').annotator() to > get up and running > * Fast even on large documents > * Support of multiple users > * Pluggable backends > > _______________________________________________ > okfn-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss >
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