Comt
Free / open source software Web-based text annotation system
What is COMT
COMT is the core engine of co-ment(R), the leading Web service for text annotation. It is an autonomous software released under the GNU Affero GPL version 3 with a reservation clause on the trademark co-ment (see trademark use regulation). COMT enables you to install and run a text-annotation Web service. COMT operates a workspace shared among a group of users. In this workspace, one can create, upload, submit to comments, revise, and export texts and their comments. User rights are defined for the whole set of texts in the workspace and can be specialized for each text.
An documentation/API exists and can be used to create plugin components for other systems like CMSes. The Drupal component will be released before september 2010.
The key component of COMT is a highly performant AJAX Web interface for displaying annotated texts and for interactive annotation, commenting and discussion. The server side is based on the Django framework and uses a PostgreSQL or MySQL database. The default underlying format for texts is the structured text markdown format. Welcome to the future of text.
What happens here
Here you can:
- download COMT
- signal bugs or emit functionality requests (you will have to register first)
- produce translations
- access the documentation / FAQ
- report installs (registration required, install reports help us improve the installation procedure)
- participate in COMT development
Development
You can browse the source online or checkout a copy of the code:
hg clone http://hg.co-ment.org/ comt
