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Re: co-ment text annotation and commenting system

Philippe Aigrain wrote:
> About a year ago, there were a few posts on this list on text annotation 
> systems. We have developed an entirely new system whose client commenting 
> interface is inspired from the STET system used for the GPLv3 revision, but 
> with a much extended overall functionality :
> - the system provides a full symetrical service : anyone can upload or create  
> texts and manage rights of access and commenting,
> - Comments can be tagged and there are a number of basic workflows for 
> processing them,
> - text versioning is included,
> - exports are in process.
> 
> The code base is licensed under the Affero GPLv3, with a trademark restriction 
> clause (co-ment is a registered trademark that can not be used without 
> authorization). Technology : AJAX + Django + PostgreSQL.

Wow, Phillipe this is amazing -- I'm particularly happy that the code is 
in python.

I'll definitely be checking this out. We developed our original code [1] 
for use on http://demo.openshakespeare.net but have been hampered by the 
performance issues of using js to parse through large texts (e.g. a 
shakespeare play). One way to deal with this (that the author of 
marginalia has explored) is to use xpath locations but that apparently 
does not work on IE. How have you dealt with the performance issues and 
does co-ment work in both IE and Firefox?

[1]: http://knowledgeforge.net/shakespeare/svn/annotater/trunk

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Philippe Aigrain | 5 Feb 19:11

Re: co-ment text annotation and commenting system

 I am forwarding in a separate mail your technical questions to the developers 
(Raphaël Badin and Renaud Bernard) but here are some immediate answers :

- yes, co-ment works with both Firefox and IE (though it was the usual 
nightmare to solve some issues in IE).

- we have limits on size of text uploads that are due to the OpenOffice 
converter that we are using, but a Shakespeare play is definitely OK. In 
practice cutting and pasting gives most of the time better results than 
uploading from a word processor. I have just uploaded "As you like it" by cut 
and paste and turned to public viewing and commenting to public. You can test 
it at :
http://www.co-ment.net/text/104/

Philippe
Le Tuesday 05 February 2008 18:17:57 Rufus Pollock, vous avez écrit :
> Philippe Aigrain wrote:
[...]
> Wow, Phillipe this is amazing -- I'm particularly happy that the code is
> in python.
>
> I'll definitely be checking this out. We developed our original code [1]
> for use on http://demo.openshakespeare.net but have been hampered by the
> performance issues of using js to parse through large texts (e.g. a
> shakespeare play). One way to deal with this (that the author of
> marginalia has explored) is to use xpath locations but that apparently
> does not work on IE. How have you dealt with the performance issues and
> does co-ment work in both IE and Firefox?
>
>

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