MADCOW: a multimedia digital annotation system
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Proceedings of the 11th annual international ACM/IEEE joint conference on Digital libraries
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The use of the Web and the diffusion of knowledge management systems makes it possible to base discussions upon a vast set of documents, many of which also include links to multimedia material, such as images or videos. This perspective could be exploited by allowing a team to collaborate by exchanging and retrieving annotated multimedia documents (text, images, audio and video). We designed and developed a digital annotation system, MADCOW, to assist users in constructing, disseminating, and retrieving multimedia annotations of documents, supporting collaborative activities to build a web of decision-related documents. We made a strong effort in designing the user interface and we tested it with 24 users. We describe a scenario in which annotation plays a crucial role, where the object of the collaboration is a politically and artistically important palace of Rome, for which the availability of images and historical documentation is fundamental in order to take informed decisions. We demonstrate the MADCOW interface and its use in the restoration team. The annotations can be used to support teamwork as well as to offer the public some reasoned integration and guide to the available material.