Annotation, the Bible and the public domain

Tue, 14 Jan 2003 10:18:00 -0500
/technology

The use of hypertext in centralised, non-intrusive annotation projects is a very valuable one. It is also something that clearly demonstrates the value of a large and digital public domain. Annotated hard-copy is, in comparison, slow, clumsy and limited in it’s uses.

The Skeptics Bible is a project that makes use of hypertext in exactly this way. Its focus on one specific document makes it different to most other annotation projects.

While writing this is has become obvious to me that weblogs are a decentralised citation system. What would a map of social software, with x-axis as citation-annotation and y-axis (de)centralisation look like?