[open-humanities] Annotation system for books and so on in Wordpress

[Iain Emsley]

Hi Rufus,

Fair points. I just thought that it might be of some interest as an
approach not necessarily a replacement.

I'm hoping to have some time tomorrow so will add it to the list of things
planned.

All best,

Iain

On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 10:26 AM, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org>
wrote:

> Hi Iain,
>
> Good point to raise. There have been a variety of wordpress annotation
> plugins (and we've used several of them over the years). The big difference
> compared to what we are doing is that those plugins tend to mess with the
> text in some way in the other and don't follow the approach of Textus of
> separating text and annotation (and markup) very cleanly.
>
> BTW we are pretty close in having the textus viewer working. I know I was
> the one leading on this but I've been rather pressed on other matters
> recently so if anyone wanted to jump in and take this on that would be
> fantastic and I'd definitely lend a helping hand and guidance:
>
> https://github.com/okfn/textus-viewer
>
> Rufus
>
> On 23 September 2014 16:16, Iain Emsley <iainemsley at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I was looking at something a little different but came across this
>> Wordpress plugin with functionality that seems very familiar:
>> http://futureofthebook.org/commentpress/
>>
>> I've only had a quick scoot on the page but it looks decent enough.
>>
>> All best,
>>
>> Iain
>>
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