Annotate once, appear anywhere: collective foraging for snippets of interest using paragraph fingerprinting Export

@inproceedings{citeulike:4524851, abstract = {A common practice in work groups is to share links to interesting web pages. Moreover, passages in these web pages are often cut-and-pasted, and used in various other contexts. In this paper we report how we explore the idea of paragraph fingerprinting to achieve the goal of annotate once, appear anywhere"in a social annotation system called SparTag.us. This work was motivated by the prominence of redundant contents with different URLs on the Web and shared documents that are read and re-read within enterprises. Our technique attaches users' annotations to the contents of paragraphs, enabling annotations to move along with the paragraphs within dynamic live pages and travel across page boundary to other pages as long as the paragraph contents remain intact. We also describe how we use paragraph fingerprinting to facilitate the social sharing of information nuggets among our users.}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, author = {Hong, Lichan and Chi, Ed H.}, booktitle = {CHI '09: Proceedings of the 27th international conference on Human factors in computing systems}, citeulike-article-id = {4524851}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1518701.1518976}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1518701.1518976}, doi = {10.1145/1518701.1518976}, isbn = {978-1-60558-246-7}, keywords = {collaboration, information\_foraging}, location = {Boston, MA, USA}, pages = {1791--1794}, posted-at = {2009-05-15 22:29:47}, priority = {2}, publisher = {ACM}, title = {Annotate once, appear anywhere: collective foraging for snippets of interest using paragraph fingerprinting}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1518701.1518976}, year = {2009} }

TY - CONF ID - citeulike:4524851 L3 - citeulike-article-id:4524851 N2 - A common practice in work groups is to share links to interesting web pages. Moreover, passages in these web pages are often cut-and-pasted, and used in various other contexts. In this paper we report how we explore the idea of paragraph fingerprinting to achieve the goal of annotate once, appear anywhere"in a social annotation system called SparTag.us. This work was motivated by the prominence of redundant contents with different URLs on the Web and shared documents that are read and re-read within enterprises. Our technique attaches users' annotations to the contents of paragraphs, enabling annotations to move along with the paragraphs within dynamic live pages and travel across page boundary to other pages as long as the paragraph contents remain intact. We also describe how we use paragraph fingerprinting to facilitate the social sharing of information nuggets among our users. CY - Boston, MA, USA SN - 978-1-60558-246-7 AD - New York, NY, USA EP - 1794 TI - Annotate once, appear anywhere: collective foraging for snippets of interest using paragraph fingerprinting PB - ACM T2 - CHI '09: Proceedings of the 27th international conference on Human factors in computing systems SP - 1791 KW - collaboration KW - information_foraging AU - Hong, Lichan AU - Chi, Ed PY - 2009/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1518701.1518976 ER -