Inspiration came and I decided to
take a different step than I described in my third blog. This because I first
want to retrieve more information about Web annotation and its history. I
think this will give me a good basis to think about the criteria for a suitable
web-based annotation program.
To find articles I've used Google
Scholar and I searched with the terms: Web Annotation, Web Annotation System
and Annotation. The relevance of articles was determined by looking at the
title, inspecting the abstract, and the number of citations. Furthermore, I
took the year of publication into consideration. From this search I got 23
articles which seem to contain useful information. Furthermore, I found an
interesting article while inspecting the wiki about Annotation on Wikipedia.
This makes a total of 24 articles
about Web Annotation and Web Annotation Systems, which I want to inspect.
However, just starting to read did not feel like a good idea. I wanted to make
annotations and cross references along the way, work on multiple devices, and
work in an orderly way. So, I need an Annotation program, but which one to
choose?
Which Annotation programs are available?
Which features do they have? Are they available for free? So my next search
started. First, I started by looking for PDF annotators, because all articles
are in PDF-format any way. This made me stumble on a really nice forum
(astrobetter.com) which discussed PDF annotators for (astrophysical) articles.
About 7 programs where discussed and one of them was Mendeley which has the
feature of collaboration. This made me realize, I really want that feature in
my program, since it is useful now and it will be useful later on as well when
I need to decide on a program.
In the end I had a list of 11
annotators from which 5 have the possibility of collaboration:
- Bluebeam Revu
- Mendeley
- Zotero
- Qiqqa
- EndNote
These programs I will investigate
further: what are their features? What are the similarities? The differences?
Then I’ll decide upon which one or two I will start to use and then the article
reading starts…
Dear Anouk, good to see that you have resumed work on the literature study. Beware that you are not making side-steps now... In the third post, you were well on track already with features that would be useful in our specific project. Now however, you go back to the basics of choosing a supportive platform for the literature study itself... I propose to be pragmatic for the latter. If you want to discuss your intermediate steps for the literature study, you can as well just post blog items here. Other from that, I don't see why collaboration is so important regarding work on the literature study. What is more important is that you also consider the state-of-the-art in guideline model extraction software. In the latest version of our FHIES paper, we for example discuss why GEMCutter does not satisfy our requirements. Please include papers such as http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3243287/ in your literature study. I will send you the latest version of the FHIES paper and please contact me if anything is unclear from that.
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Pieter