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

[Jonathan Gray]

Very nice! Functionality seems similar to what we have with TEXTUS beta.
Would be great to get in touch with them. :-)


On 3 April 2013 09:16, todd.d.robbins at gmail.com <todd.d.robbins at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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/
>>>
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