[open-humanities] Fwd: MIT HyperStudio's Annotation Studio featuring AnnotateIt

Wed Apr 3 09:06:25 UTC 2013

Thanks Todd.

I hadn't seen this. I can't seem to find any demos. Do you happen to know
if there is one?

Cheers,
Sam

On 3 April 2013 06:39, todd.d.robbins at gmail.com <todd.d.robbins at gmail.com>wrote:

> I didn't see this mentioned previously in the list archive so I thought
> I'd bring it to the group's attention. MIT apparently has a HyperStudio
> group [1] that has built a tool quite similar to TEXTUS called Annotation
> Studio [2]. They're borrowed code from AnnotateIt and some of their
> changes/features are pretty neat. For instance, you can include image links
> within an annotation as well as text and switch between personal, group,
> and class sets of annotations within the sidebar.
>
> Here's what they list as technologies that are part of the project:
>
>    -
>    - All user and group management and document organization is built in
>    Ruby on Rails
>    - Annotation data is stored in the MongoDB database, via a REST API
>    written in Node.js
>    - The Annotator editor, built by the Open Knowledge Foundation in
>    Javascript
>    - The annotation environment uses Backbone.js to provide user data
>    display and navigation
>    - We use the Twitter Bootstrap and jQuery for user interface controls,
>    layout and design.
>    - Github and Heroku serve as platforms for collaboration and
>    deployment.
>
> I'm likely late to noticing the project, but thought I'd pass it along for
> others who may have also missed it.
>
> Cheers!
>
> [1] http://hyperstudio.mit.edu/
> [2] http://www.annotationstudio.org/
>
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