Annotations: A Way to Capture Experience

Gaëlle Lortal (1) , Myriam Lewkowicz (1) , Amalia Todirascu-Courtier (2)

1 Tech-CICO - TECHnologies pour la Coopération, l’Interaction et les COnnaissances dans les collectifs
2 LILPA - Linguistique, Langues et Parole

This paper describes a cooperative tool used by a mechanical engineering team carrying out an asynchronous and distributed work. The tool supports communication phases as well as document and product creation phases by means of annotations. Memorizing all the annotations and creating documents from these annotations enable the team members to capture their experience. Annotation is here defined as a continuum fulfilling several purposes from communication and argumentation to indexation.

Keywords: Annotation; Knowledge Management; Experience; Indexation; Communication

Domains: Computer Science [cs]; Social and Information Networks [cs.SI]; Humanities and Social Sciences; Library and information sciences; Computer Science [cs]; Document and Text Processing

Gaëlle Lortal, Myriam Lewkowicz, Amalia Todirascu-Courtier. Annotations: A Way to Capture Experience. Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems, 4251, pp.1131-1138, 2006, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, ⟨10.1007/11892960_136⟩. ⟨hal-02548569⟩