Sally Jo Cunningham, Chris Knowles. Annotations in an Academic Digital Library: The Case of Conference Note-Taking and Annotation. In Edward A. Fox, Erich J. Neuhold, Pimrumpai Premsmit, Vilas Wuwongse, editors, Digital Libraries: Implementing Strategies and Sharing Experiences, 8th International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries, ICADL 2005, Bangkok, Thailand, December 12-15, 2005, Proceedings. Volume 3815 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 62-71, Springer, 2005. [doi]
This paper explores the potential usefulness and acceptability of annotation facilities by prospective users of an IT research digital library. We studied current annotation and note-taking behavior of IT researchers (academic and commercial), as exhibited at IT conferences. Here, we examine the implications of this information behavior for the design of annotation tools in a research-oriented digital library.