@note: an electronic tool for academic readings

Abstract

@note is a rich-internet application for the collaborative annotation of digitized literary texts. It enables the collaborative definition of annotation activities by a community of annotation managers, as well as the collaborative accomplishment of these activities by communities of annotators. For this purpose, @note lets annotator managers define the different components of annotation activities, among which it is possible to distinguish annotation schemata: conceptual structures abstracting the semantics of annotations that are collaboratively defined and that can be used to catalogue the annotations. Annotations themselves are conceived as discussion forums. Later they can be filtered and browsed according to the annotation schemata, and they can be organized in exportation templates and exported in multiple formats (e.g., RTF or HTML). This demo will be focused on the operation of @note, both from the perspective of annotators, who collaboratively annotate digitized texts, and annotator managers, who collaboratively define annotation activities.