Content Rating

Scenario: Imagine you want to know what your colleagues in the interest group DLissues have found worth seeing lately. In your browser, you select "Tour annotation set DLissues", with the filter set to "annotations newly created since yesterday". You get a report containing pointers to annotated locations in various documents; you inspect some of these links with a comment previewer. Sara evidently appreciated a paper on security in the proceedings of a conference last year--she gave it the highest ranking on her personal scale. You click on the link and jump to the annotated section in the paper. You scan it up and down and wonder whether the security research group you know at another university has any opinion on this paper. You turn on their annotation set SecurityPapers, which you can access free of charge since your school has a site licensing agreement. You see that they have made a "trailmarker annotation" to the top of the paper. You inspect the annotation icon with the previewer: it says that the paper you are viewing is really subsumed now by the one at a more recent conference which the trail marker points to. With another click you jump to this more recent paper, which turns out to be written even more clearly. You go back to reply to Sara's original comment and include a pointer to the SecurityPapers set.