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| author | Timothy Adrigan Andres |
| title | Linking the Past with Technology: Web Based Multimedia Annotation and Linking in the DM Project |
| abstract |
With the advent of cloud based document services, the idea of document sharing and annotation has become well known among typical computer users;
however, the types of documents which these sorts of services support have typically been limited to traditional office productivity documents. In order to provide this
sort of functionality to users who work with physical documents, the DM Project (formerly Digital Mappaemundi) was created to provide a web-based interface for annotation,
linking, and sharing of text and image representations of physical documents. To this end, a single-page web interface was created using HTML 5, CSS, and Javascript, with
a RDF data store, canvas viewer and editor, and annotation enabled text editor as its notable technical components. A Django based back-end was created to facilitate the
persistence and sharing of the data generated by the users, using the W3C draft Open Annotation and Shared Canvas data models. The actual and potential uses of this system
and the software architecture of the system are described in detail in this document by the current lead software developer of the project. This project has been used by
numerous scholars in beta test use cases, and is being released as an open source project in the Spring of 2014. |
| school | The College of Liberal Arts, Drew University |
| degree | B.A. (May 2014) |
| advisor | Jon Kettenring |
| committee | Steven Kass
Christopher Apelian
Michael Peglau |
| full text | TAndres.pdf |
| suppl. files | DM-master.zip
(The zip file is a snapshot of the codebase referred to in the text at the time it was written.)
Those interested in examining DM's codebase or installing a standalone
instance of the software can find the latest version at http://github.com/timandres/DM/. |
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