Digital Library with Reading Annotation Tool for Supporting Effective Reading Learning

Abstract

This paper presents a reading annotation and knowledge sharing tool, which can annotate a web page with HTML format archived by the Taiwan libraries` history digital library based on Web 2.0 technologies. The developed reading annotation and knowledge sharing tool can provide benefits in terms of accumulating and sharing knowledge of readers who cooperatively participate in reading or learning processes on digital library. Most importantly, the digital contents with semantic annotation can help new readers to understand the article more efficiently as well as help readers who had read this article to obtain deeper and broader knowledge. © 2011 IEEE.