An Interactive Annotation System to Support the Learner with Web Services Assistance

Functionalities provided by Annotation Systems for Learners in Educational Context: An Overview

“…Thus, recent works focus to provide annotation systems able to recommend data interpreted from learner's annotations. We can quote in this context some research works such as: PDF-Annotator [49] that offers PDFs related to the same topic of annotated text; CASE [20] and Vpen [22] which present videos or images related to the semantics of annotations realized by learner; New-WebAnnot [2] that recommends an assistance by web services interpreted implicitly through learner's annotative activity; Tsaap-Notes [11] which provides a learner profile constructed from his social annotations; and Omheni et al [32] who interpret the personality traits of learner from his annotations.…”

“…This is why alternative techniques have been developed to resolve this problem. Thus, new annotation systems insert into the annotated resource only an icon which indicates the beginning of the anchor point of the annotation, as for example New-WebAnnot [2], MyNote [6], and WriteOn [13]. Icons also serve as hyperlinks which allow to see the content of annotation by placing the mouse pointer above the icon.…”

“…Thus, students who have similar profiles are mutualized to create an information exchange. Another example of recommendation of data related to annotations is provided by Kalboussi et al, [2,31] by presenting a new annotation system New-WebAnnot able to recommend web services assistance interpreted from the learner's annotations [53]. Based on a new approach presenting the learner's annotative activity as a means to invoke web services implicitly [38], the proposed annotation system tries to assist the learner via web services during his learning activities [52].…”

“…Despite the utility of such feature, Chen et al, [23] relate that few systems allow actually to search for annotations. Therefore, recent annotation systems try to propose the functionality of searching of annotations with keywords [2,4].…”

“…Many researchers have been interested in the creation of annotation tools to facilitate learner's annotative activity in digital environment. We can find numerous commercial software and research prototypes created to annotate electronic educational resources such as: TafAnnote [41]; Notebook [26]; Crocodoc [46]; New-WebAnnot [2]; etc.…”