= Web annotations =

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Documentation of the [[json-annotation-format|JSON annotation format]].

= Web annotation software projects at the MPIWG =


== [[AnnotationManagerN4J]] ==

AnnotationManagerN4J is an **annotation server** compatible with [[http://annotatorjs.org/|Annotator.js]] clients implementing the [[http://docs.annotatorjs.org/en/latest/storage.html|Annotator.js storage API]] (with some extensions).

It is written in Java using the [[http://www.restlet.org/|Restlet]] framework and the [[http://neo4j.org/|Neo4J]] graph database. It is built using [[http://maven.apache.org/|Maven]].

The source code can be browsed [[source:AnnotationManagerN4J|here]] or in the Mercurial repository at https://it-dev.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/hg/AnnotationManagerN4J/

[[AnnotationManagerN4J|More information...]]


== [[ZOKFNAnnotator]] ==

ZOKFNAnnotator is a [[http://zope2.zope.org/|Zope]] product that provides [[http://annotatorjs.org/|Annotator.js]] Javascript client files and a **token server** for [[http://annotatorjs.org/|Annotator.js]] clients.

It is written in Python for the [[http://zope2.zope.org/|Zope]] web application server.

The source code can be browsed [[source:OKFNAnnotator (for Zope)|here]] or in the Mercurial repository at https://it-dev.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/hg/OKFNAnnotator/

[[OKFNAnnotator|More information...]]


== [[DocumentViewer]] ==

!DocumentViewer is a [[http://zope2.zope.org/|Zope]] product that provides a **web viewer** for scanned books and XML-fulltexts with "Annotator" layers for annotations on texts and images. Annotations are created using the [[http://annotatorjs.org/|Annotator.js]] Javascript client and [[digilib]] for images and stored on a compatible annotation server like [[AnnotationManagerN4J]].

It is written in Python for the [[http://zope2.zope.org/|Zope]] web application server.

The source code can be browsed [[/../mpdl-project-software/browser/documentViewer|here]] or in the Mercurial repository at https://it-dev.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/hg/documentViewer/

[[DocumentViewer|More information...]]


== [[digilib]] ==

digilib is an image server and **web client** for viewing images with an "annotator" plugin for annotations on images. Annotations are created using the [[http://annotatorjs.org/|Annotator.js]] library client and stored on a compatible annotation server like [[AnnotationManagerN4J]].

It is written in Java and Javascript.

The project page is http://digilib.berlios.de

The source code for digilib can be browsed [[http://hg.berlios.de/repos/digilib|here]] or in the Mercurial repository at http://hg.berlios.de/repos/digilib

The annotator plugin for digilib uses the !DigilibIntegrator plugin for Annotator.js from https://github.com/robcast/annotator

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