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Improving Annotations in Digital Documents

Jen Pearson Orcid Logo, George Buchanan, Harold Thimbleby

Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries, Volume: 5714

Swansea University Author: Jen Pearson Orcid Logo

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DOI (Published version): 10.1007%2F978-3-642-04346-8_51

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Annotation plays a major role in a user’s reading of a document: from elementary school students making notes on text books to professors marking up their latest research papers. A common place for annotations to appear is in the margin of a document. Surprisingly, there is little systematic knowled...

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Published in: Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries
Published: 2009
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