ANNOTATIONS AND HYPERTRAILS WITH SPREADCRUMBS - An Easy Way to Annotate, Refind and Share

Ricardo Kawase, Eelco Herder, Wolfgang Nejdl

2010

Abstract

Annotations have been shown to be an important activity during reading, especially during “active reading”. Annotations support understanding, interpretation, sensemaking and scannability. As valuable as in paper-based contexts, digital online annotations provide several benefits for annotators and collaborators. To study the impact of these benefits we present in this paper SpreadCrumbs, a straightforward Web annotation tool. SpreadCrumbs offers simple annotation’s interactions and metaphors that support most of the users’ annotations needs in the digital environment by enhancing the web experience with “in-context” annotations and providing a unique form of social navigation support with hypertrails. The results of our studies with the tool show the importance of annotations, the empirical outperformance of “in-context” annotations over other methods, and the outcome benefits of supporting social navigation.

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Kawase R., Herder E. and Nejdl W. (2010). ANNOTATIONS AND HYPERTRAILS WITH SPREADCRUMBS - An Easy Way to Annotate, Refind and Share . In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technology - Volume 2: WEBIST, ISBN 978-989-674-025-2, pages 5-12. DOI: 10.5220/0002778100050012


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@conference{webist10,
author={Ricardo Kawase and Eelco Herder and Wolfgang Nejdl},
title={ANNOTATIONS AND HYPERTRAILS WITH SPREADCRUMBS - An Easy Way to Annotate, Refind and Share},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technology - Volume 2: WEBIST,},
year={2010},
pages={5-12},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002778100050012},
isbn={978-989-674-025-2},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technology - Volume 2: WEBIST,
TI - ANNOTATIONS AND HYPERTRAILS WITH SPREADCRUMBS - An Easy Way to Annotate, Refind and Share
SN - 978-989-674-025-2
AU - Kawase R.
AU - Herder E.
AU - Nejdl W.
PY - 2010
SP - 5
EP - 12
DO - 10.5220/0002778100050012