Friday 4 April 2008

Adding Value through SNEEPing

I'm really quite taken by the SNEEP plug-in for ePrints that was showcased at OR08. It enables users to add their comments/annotations to an item stored in an eprints repository. These annotations are then made public and items can have numerous annotations added by different users. I don't know if there's a limit...? This is a great example of one way that value can be added to data collections in the context of digital curation - though admittedly the value of the added comments and annotations will be debatable! SNEEP can be downloaded from the SNEEP eprints installation at ULCC.

2 comments:

  1. Glad to hear you like the SNEEP idea. Just to give a brief update - we have a target date to have the finished plugins (Comments, Bookmarks, Tags - also Notes, which is basically private comments) ready by 23rd May - slightly later than originally planned - but we should have beta versions available before that. I'll make sure Eprints-tech and other interested parties are informed. And we're working closely with Southampton to make sure they are 3.1 compatible too.

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  2. Nice and collaborative...

    A.nnotate does something similar for draft PDFs, text documents and web pages.

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