Researchers Annotation Collections and Practices

This paper discusses about the relationship between active reading and annotation and how it could benefits researchers in managing their personal annotation collections. Definitions of active reading and annotation from previous researchers are examined. Annotation plays an important role to support active reading processes especially among researchers. The way annotation is being captured and written need to be properly identified, manage, store, link and share to make it relevant to fulfill the purpose of sharing, reuse and enrich information and knowledge. Based on review of previous studies and discussions, architecture for annotator's environment and annotation lifecycle was constructed, some important issue are identified and gathered. This study proposes an initial annotation classification model.