Department of Computer Science EXTRA INFORMATION FOR PROF. PETER BROWN

Research into integrating the reading and writing of electronic documents My home page gives the overall rationale for this work. The following papers, mostly written with Heather Brown, are available: a short description of the original idea, which came about as a result of the UK Grand Challenges for research in computer science. a paper, published in the Journal of Digital Information, which fleshes out the ideas a paper, under construction, that examines similarities between annotation and hyperlinking. This reflects ideas that have developed further from earlier work: a paper and some working notes on a project that used Guide to make/display annotations for web pages; these discuss the similarity between the concepts of (a) hypertext linking and (b) annotation a paper that explores annotation as a step towards the read/write document a paper on the applications in education; education is, I believe, a hugely important field for exploiting the ideas, since reading and writing of electronic documents are so central -- especially in higher education. This paper is for ED-MEDIA 2004 in Lugano. some not-yet-finished working notes on lifelong annotation and the prototype repository. a description of concepts and practicalities underlying annotation. Comments welcome. a discussion of annotations used to represent suggested edits to the base document. Such annotations can be effected, i.e. the edits can be done; we have an ongoing experiment on software to support this. in the event the original Grand Challenge meeting agreed a set of composite challenges, each of which brought together six (say) of the original proposals. One of these composites is a lifetime memory aid. This paper relates annotation to that composite challenge. Some prototype software (only usable on a browser running under Unix at Exeter University): Script to display an annotated file Directory containing annotation files for prototype software Directory containing annotation files for remembered papers Peter Brown