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propublica / transcribable

Drop in crowdsourcing for your Rails app. Extracted from Free the Files.
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Have you thought about including Documentcloud annotation style as an option? #4

Closed miguelpaz closed 10 years ago

miguelpaz commented 10 years ago

I realized that Transcribable is designed to make text entries in fields designated by who ever sets it up. The fields are defined and that info goes to a database which is great. But what happens if you want to give your users the possibility of making annotations in the documents as in DocumentCloud style, so they are marked. I assume you already thought about this but maybe decided not to go that way for a reason?

ashaw commented 10 years ago

The main problem with adding official document annotations is that they can only be made my those within news organizations with DocumentCloud accounts, so you'd have to proxy the annotations to an editor or reporter somehow. An alternative would be to style user annotations to look like DC annotations, which would just be a CSS/JS job.