Outcomes DMQ4: Instruments SI1: Fedora DB SI3: Semantic Search for SRB CR2: Creative Commons CR3: Science Commons AA1: Individual Annotations AA2: Secure Annotations AA3: Collaborative Annotations DA3: Metadata Schema Registry Climatology Demonstrator AA3 (Summary) Overview System Architecture Client Application Demo Software Technologies

AA3: Co-Annotea

Co-Annotea was developed as part of AA3 DART workpackage. This work package focuses on tools to support collaborative annotations by groups of users either asynchronously or in real-time through application sharing. Written in C# (.NET Framework 2.0) as a standalone application, it allows distributed users to annotate content asynchronously and collaboratively, and to share these annotations. Users may annotate 3D crystallography files through an embedded JMOL player, and other web content such as PDF through an embedded Internet Explorer. They can also watch the content synchronously using application sharing tools such as VNC.

System Architecture

architecture

Client Application


Example interface usage

The client application is host to the AnnoteaSidebar, as well as the Internet Explorer web browser and displays the JMol browser within this. It allows linking of all of these components within a unified interface. It also allows displaying of multiple documents and/or JMol viewers within the same window for easy comparisons.


Example JMol and comparison.

Demo

View a step-through demo of Co-Annotea (requires flash).

Software

To install the Co-Annotea client:

Technologies