Knowledge weasel hypermedia annotation system

Abstract

We describe the organization implementation of the Knowledge Weasel (KW) Hypermedia Annotation System which we are using to explore knowledge structuring by collaborative annotation. Knowledge Weasel incorporates many useful features: a common record format for representing annotations in different media for uniform access; dynamic user control of the presentation of annotations as a navigational aid; global navigation using queries and local navigation using link following; support for collecting related sets of annotations into groups for contextual reference and communication. KW purposely leverages off of free. publicly available software so it doesn't require building specialized tools and also so it can be freely available. We discusses of some of the issues involved with annotating non-textual material such as images and sound and conclude with a brief discussion of ongoing and future work.