Supporting group collaboration in an annotation system. (August 2017)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- Supporting group collaboration in an annotation system. (August 2017)
- Main Title:
- Supporting group collaboration in an annotation system
- Authors:
- Avola, Danilo
Bottoni, Paolo
Hawash, Amjad - Abstract:
- Highlights: Group-based services supporting cooperation introduced to a Web annotation tool. Formal model of groups, of operations on them and of security mechanisms. Details on the overall architecture and core implementation mechanisms. Presentation of Technology-Enhanced Learning applicative scenarios and experimental tests. Abstract: Annotation has become a common practice when interacting with digital documents, allowing the addition of information to existing data without corrupting them. Restricting visibility of annotations to groups of users, as usually enforced in enterprise collaboration systems, turns annotations into a tool for focused collaboration among users with common interests. However, providing different levels of visibility in an open Web-based environment is challenging, due to conflicting needs: to keep the annotation process simple, to ensure adequate levels of privacy and confidence to users, and to allow users to filter out irrelevant information. We describe a suite of services for group formation and management, integrated into the existing MADCOW annotation system. We also propose a formal characterisation of groups, introducing atomic operations on which complex functionalities are based. The paper discusses different scenarios and applications and argues for the usability of the proposed integration by presenting the results of experimental tests.
- Is Part Of:
- Journal of visual languages & computing. Volume 41(2017)
- Journal:
- Journal of visual languages & computing
- Issue:
- Volume 41(2017)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 41, Issue 2017 (2017)
- Year:
- 2017
- Volume:
- 41
- Issue:
- 2017
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2017-0041-2017-0000
- Page Start:
- 22
- Page End:
- 40
- Publication Date:
- 2017-08
- Subjects:
- Web annotation -- Group management formalization -- User collaboration
Visual programming languages (Computer science) -- Periodicals
Visual programming (Computer science) -- Periodicals
Programming languages (Electronic computers) -- Semantics -- Periodicals
Langages de programmation visuelle -- Périodiques
Programmation visuelle -- Périodiques
Langages de programmation -- Sémantique -- Périodiques
Programming languages (Electronic computers) -- Semantics
Visual programming (Computer science)
Visual programming languages (Computer science)
Periodicals
Electronic journals
005 - Journal URLs:
- http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/1045926X ↗
http://www.elsevier.com/journals ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1016/j.jvlc.2017.04.004 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 1045-926X
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- Legaldeposit
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