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A universal annotation and linking tool for the Web

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[+><+] support
[-><-] issue
[#><#] comment
[?><?] query
 

Congratulations on installing the CritLink software. You can use this software to provide an annotation service for the whole Web, or within a workgroup to privately annotate any public Web site or a local Intranet. Annotations can be applied to any plain text or HTML document, including any other annotation, and they can be stored anywhere, in the same way as any other Web document.

Inspired by the ideas of Xanadu and the Memex, and developed for a project of the Foresight Institute to enable critical discussions and enhance productivity for those using the web, CritLink takes vital steps toward a truly connected and interactive Web structure.

When CritSuite has been used to comment on a document, text relevant to the annotation will be bracketed by small colored markers. The colors indicate the nature of the comment: green for support, red for an issue, blue for a comment, or orange for a query. The markers also contain small symbols to help them appear more distinct: a plus sign for support, a minus sign for an issue, a hash mark for a comment, or a question mark for a query.

 

More Information

Selecting the "help" button in the banner at the top of any mediated page will provide instructions on how to use these tools. Please send any questions to crit-help@crit.org. Several other mailing lists are also available for discussing technical issues or more specific topics.

The following documents about CritLink are also available:

You can download new versions of CritLink, stay up to date with the progress of this project, and try out the other parts of the CritSuite software at http://crit.org/.