Work on Annotation Found Elsewhere

Recently during my regular research work on annotation I came across some work done by W3C on Annotation. I was surprised to see that the work on annotation was quite active back in late 1990s.

Annotation project using RDF at W3C:

• WWW9 Developer's Day presentation
• paper submitted to UIST 2000
• RDF Description Services (discussion note for the RDF Interest Group).

some interesting work elsewhere:

• Dan Connolly's Javascript code for excerpting from the Web.
• The Crit service, based on CritLink (opensource Perl software) is one of the longest established online annotation servers.
• Netscape's What's Related service uses RDF to send 'related link' annotations to browsing clients. See also Mozilla documentation.
• USC Annotation Technology pages include a set of specifications for annotation software design and a Java implmentation, Annotator.
• Aggregating Recommendations using RDF, Libby Miller.
• NCSA Hypernews
• ComMentor: Scalable Architecture for Shared Web Annotations as a Platform for Value-Added Providers, at Stanford
• Cornell Annotation System
• Web Interactive Talk claims to be 'the first dialectical discussion system'. Here is a An Overview of 'Web Interactive Talk', the "first dialectical discussion system" (1994)
• A Protocol for Scalable Group and Public Annotations, by Daniel LaLiberte and Alan Braverman of NCSA
• Public Annotation Systems, discussion and implementation by Wayne Gramlich at Sun.

I hope you enjoy reading these links as much as I did.