GENERIC ANNOTATION FRAMEWORK FOR ANNOTATING DOCUMENTS
Various embodiments of systems and methods for annotating documents are described herein. In one aspect, the method includes identifying a type of a document to be annotated, selecting a mapping rule associated with the identified type of the document, and executing the selected mapping rule to determine a position of an annotation within the document. A user selection of the annotation is received. The selected annotation is stored along with the determined position. The annotation and its corresponding position are stored into a repository to enable linking the annotation to its corresponding position on a fly based upon a request. Based upon the request, the position is marked on the fly while displaying the document to show that the position includes the annotation.
1 . An article of manufacture including a non-transitory computer readable storage medium to tangibly store instructions, which when executed by one or more computers in a network of computers causes performance of operations comprising:
identifying a type of a document to be annotated;
selecting a mapping rule associated with the type of the document;
executing the selected mapping rule to determine a position of an annotation within the document;
receiving a user selection of the annotation; and
storing the selected annotation along with the determined position it a repository.
2 . The article of manufacture of claim 1 , wherein the type of the document comprises one of a text, an audio, a video, and an image.
3 . The article of manufacture of claim 2 , wherein when the type of the document is one of the audio and the video, the position within the document refers to a point of time within the audio or the video.
4 . The article of manufacture of claim 1 , wherein the mapping rule determines the position based upon a location of cursor within the document.
5 . The article of manufacture of claim 1 further comprising instructions which when executed cause the one or more computers to perform the operations comprising:
receiving a request for providing one or m-ore: types of annotation supported by the document; and
based upon the request, providing the one or more types of annotation supported by the document.
6 . The article of manufacture of claim 5 further comprising instructions which when executed cause the one or more computers to perform the operations comprising:
receiving the user selection of a type of annotation from the one or more types of annotation supported by the document; and
based upon the user selection, identifying the type of the annotation to be stored corresponding to the determined position.
7 . The article of manufacture of claim 1 further comprising instructions which when executed cause the one or more computers to:
store metadata related to the annotation in a cloud based repository, wherein the metadata related to the annotation comprises at least one of:
a name of the document;
the type of the document;
the type of the annotation comprising one of a text, an audio, a video, an image, a power point presentation, and a reminder;
the position of annotation within the document, wherein when the document is an audio or a video, the position of annotation within the document is a point of time within the audio or the video;
a creation date of the annotation;
a name of an author who selected the annotation; and
one or more keywords associated with the annotation.
8 . The article of manufacture of claim 7 further comprising instructions which when executed cause the one or more computers to perform the operations comprising:
receiving a keyword to be searched in one or more annotations of one or more documents of various types;
determining whether the keyword is associated with at least one of the one or more annotations of the one or more documents;
when the keyword is not associated with any of the annotations, displaying an error message; and
when the keyword is associated with the one or more annotations, displaying the one or more annotations of the one or more documents.
9 . The article of manufacture of claim 1 further comprising instructions which when executed cause the one or more computers to perform the operations comprising:
receiving a request from a requestor for displaying the document; and
based upon access rights of the requestor, performing the operations comprising:
identifying one or more annotations stored corresponding to one or more positions within the document;
linking the one or more annotations to their corresponding position within the document;
marking the one or more positions within the document with at least one of an icon, a symbol, and a highlighter to show that the one or more positions include the annotation; and
displaying the document along with the marked positions.
10 . The article of manufacture of claim 9 further comprising instructions which when executed cause the one or more computers to perform the operations comprising:
receiving a user selection of the marked position; and
displaying an annotation stored corresponding to the selected marked position.
11 . A method for annotating a document implemented on a network of one or more computers, the method comprising:
identifying a type of the document to be annotated;
selecting a mapping rule associated with the type of the document;
executing the selected mapping rule to determine a position of an annotation within the document;
receiving a user selection of the annotation; and
storing the selected annotation along with the determined position in a repository.
12 . The method of claim 11 further comprising:
receiving a request for providing one or more types of annotation supported by the document;
based upon the request, providing the one or more types of annotation supported by the document;
receiving the user selection of a type of annotation from the one or more types of annotation supported by the document; and
based upon the user selection, identifying the type of the annotation to be stored corresponding to the determined position.
13 . The method of claim 11 further comprising:
receiving a keyword to be searched in one or more annotations of one or more documents of various types;
determining whether the keyword is associated with at least one of the one or more annotations of the one or more documents;
when the keyword is not associated with any of the annotations, displaying an error message; and
when the keyword is associated with the one or more annotations, displaying the one or more annotations of the one or more documents.
14 . The method of claim 11 further comprising:
receiving a request from a requestor for displaying the document; and
based upon access rights of the requestor, performing the operations comprising:
identifying one or more annotations stored corresponding to one or more positions within the document;
linking the one or more annotations to their corresponding position within the document;
marking the one or more positions within the document with at least one of an icon, a symbol, and a highlighter to show that the one or more positions include the annotation; and
displaying the document along with the marked positions.
15 . A computer system for annotating a document comprising:
a memory to store program code; and
a processor communicatively coupled to the memory, the processor configured to execute the program code to cause one or more computers in a network of computers to:
identify a type of the document to be annotated;
select a mapping rule associated with the type of the document;
execute the selected mapping rule to determine a position of an annotation within the document;
receive a user selection of the annotation; and
store the selected annotation along with the determined position in a repository.
16 . The computer system of claim 15 , wherein the processor is further configured to perform the operations comprising:
receiving a request for providing one or more types of annotation supported by the document;
based upon the request, providing the one or more types of annotation supported by the document.
17 . The computer system of claim 16 , wherein the processor is further configured to perform the operations comprising:
receiving the user selection of a type of annotation from the one or more types of annotation supported by the document; and
based upon the user selection, identifying the type of the annotation to be stored corresponding to the determined position.
18 . The computer system of claim 15 , wherein the processor is further configured to perform the operations comprising:
receiving a keyword to be searched in one or more annotations of one or more documents of various types;
determining whether the keyword is associated with at least one of the one or more annotations of the one or more documents;
when the keyword is not associated with any of the annotations, displaying an error message; and
when the keyword is associated with the one or more annotations, displaying the one or more annotations of the one or more documents.
19 . The computer system of claim 15 , wherein the processor is further configured to perform the operations comprising:
receiving a request from a requestor for displaying the document; and
based upon access rights of the requestor, performing the operations comprising:
identifying one or more annotations stored corresponding to me or more positions within the document;
linking the one or more annotations to their corresponding position within the document;
marking the one or more positions within the document with at least one of an icon, a symbol, and a highlighter to show that the one or more positions include the annotation; and
displaying the document mg with the marked positions.
20 . The computer system of claim 19 , wherein the processor is further configured to perform the operations comprising:
receiving a user selection of the marked position; and
displaying an annotation stored corresponding to the selected marked position.