A conceptual framework for digital annotation system on WWW

The Internet and World Wide Web provide new ways to create and store information. From the literature, there are several reasons why people annotate documents. Some people use annotation as a reminder of an interesting or important part in a document. Annotation can be used to support collaborative work and discussion. It can also be viewed as additional information to the whole document or selected parts for some purposes such as classification. Annotation can be created in different forms e.g. highlight, note and etc. People use different forms of annotation for different functions. This paper proposed a conceptual framework for a development of digital annotation system on WWW. The framework depicts the structural components for digital annotation system. Last but not lease we used the proposed framework to develop a digital annotation system on WWW. This system allows users to create annotations on any Web pages. Users can add notes and tag and create highlight on Web pages.