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

Wed Apr 3 16:16:01 UTC 2013

Here's the link to the demo app:

http://app.annotationstudio.org/

On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 3:06 AM, Sam Leon <sam.leon at okfn.org> wrote:

> 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/
>>
>> --
>> Tod Robbins
>> Digital Collections Librarian, MLIS
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