Project Details:
eMargin: an online collaborative textual annotation resource
Developing a web-based system to allow students to annotate electronic texts and share these annotations with each other.
The system is designed to offer a digital equivalent of the marginalia associated with the academic study of texts, from underlining and colour-coded highlighting to notes and comments on particular parts of the page.
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Funding period:June 2011 to May 2012
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Organisations: Birmingham City University |
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| CSS 2 | |
| XHTML 1.0 Transitional | |
| CSS | |
| JavaScript 1.5 |
Including jQuery 1.5
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| Java 1.6 |
Including JSP for web interface
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| OpenURL 0.1 | |
| W3C WCAG 2.0 |
All content will be at least Level A compliant
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| Java Persistence API |
Implemented using Hibernate using H2 as database engine - replacing Apache Derby 10.8.
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Comments:
Posted by rowin at 2011-10-07 10:20:38
Some overlap with JISC funded POETIKS projects.
Posted by rowin at 2011-10-07 10:11:53
Sourceforge - also using for tracking.
Posted by rowin at 2011-10-07 10:10:58
Code will be be open source.
Posted by rowin at 2011-10-07 10:06:48
Lots of interest from other schools and disciplines.
Posted by rowin at 2011-10-07 10:01:30
Working informally with Leicester - they're test users.
Posted by rowin at 2011-09-15 12:55:12
Related work: US-based eComma project (http://ecomma.cwrl.utexas.edu/blog) was planned along the same lines but is now being developed in a new direction, focussing on foreign language learning. Neither source code nor a fully-functioning public version has ever been made available.
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Programme-Manager: David Kernohan