[Web4lib] tagging software for individual documents

[Tom Keays]

Could you clarify your request? At first I was assuming a social
bookmarking service, but re-reading the quote, I'm wondering if he
didn't mean something like Commentpress from the Institute for the
Future of the Book. Commentpress allows paragraph-level (not
sentence-level) comments on top a an otherwise normal WordPress blog.

http://www.futureofthebook.org/commentpress/

The Institute first used this software to allow user comments on the
text of Mitchell Stephens' e-book, "The Holy of Holies: On the
Constituents of Emptiness".

http://www.futureofthebook.org/mitchellstephens/holyofholies/

Here's the blurb about the software:

CommentPress is an open source theme for the WordPress blogging engine
that allows readers to comment paragraph by paragraph in the margins
of a text. Annotate, gloss, workshop, debate: with CommentPress you
can do all of these things on a finer-grained level, turning a
document into a conversation. It can be applied to a fixed document
(paper/essay/book etc.) or to a running blog.

On 9/20/07, Sandra Cahillane <scahilla at baypath.edu> wrote:
>
> Hello all,
>
> A faculty member is "looking for software that will allow multiple people
> to tag/index the content of a single document/website--i.e., to tag
> sentences and paragraphs within a multi-paragraph document."  He believes
> this software already exists.  Does anyone know any details about it?
>
> Thanks,
> Sandy
>
> Sandy Cahillane
> Systems and Reference Librarian
> Bay Path College
> Hatch Library
> 588 Longmeadow Street
> Longmeadow, MA  01106
> (413) 567-4529 or (413) 565-1376
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