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This is the Annotator wiki. Annotator's documentation has recently moved into the main repository and can be browsed at http://docs.annotatorjs.org/.

Plugins (3rd party)

• Touch Plugin - support for touch devices (iOS, Android, etc.)
• Offline Plugin - support for working on documents while offline, using your browser's localStorage
• Annotator Wordpress plugin - installs and integrates the Annotator with your Wordpress site. (plugin source code)
• [Categories Plugin] (https://github.com/ezietsman/annotator ) - assign pre-defined categories to annotation and highlight each with different colors. (There is a pull request pending that is not yet fully integrated (waiting for tests)). This does not work with HEAD for now and requires a full check out of the fork (based on a slightly older fork). plugin source code
• [Roundup Plugin] (https://github.com/ezietsman/annotator ) - provide some integration with the Roundup ticket tracker . plugin source code
• Margin Viewer Plugin - to display annotations in the margins
• Heatmap Plugin - some heatmap related plugin
• Readmill Plugin - allows you to submit highlights and comments to Readmill
• Drupal module - A Drupal module that integrates Annotator with your Drupal site.
• Annotorious - a plugin that integrates the Annotorious image annotation library with Annotator
• lorestore Plugin - an alternate store plugin that provides compatibility with OpenAnnotation as implemented by lorestore
• Motivations Plugin - allows OA motivations to be attached to annotations
• Prov Plugin - displays OA provenance properties in annotation viewer
• Share-annotator - share text and video annotations using social networks or email
• Geolocation-annotator - set the current user position with HTML5 geolocation to the annotation
• richText-annotator - richText give you the possibility to add rich media (rich text, pictures, movies, sounds, ...) using Tinymce in your annotations
• Symfony-annotator - Symfony Bundle using Annotator and the Store plugin.
• tags-annotator - Allows you to set pre-determined tags with color differentiators as well as let the users input their own personal tags in a tokenized way.
• Panel Viewer Plugin - Universitat Oberta de Catalunya - Allows you to view the annotations in a panel in the right side. You can delete, expand, collapse the panel and find annotations.

Backend stores

• annotator-store - the OKFN's reference implementation of the Annotator Store, used to run AnnotateIt
• roundup fork - provide some integration with the Roundup ticket tracker
• django-mongo-annotator - store based on Python, Django and MongoDB.
• annotator-fluidinfo - Fluidinfo store written in Perl, uses the Mojolicious and Net::Fluidinfo modules
• annotator-php - Annotator store built in PHP (Silex) and MongoDB
• annotator-store-lite - Another PHP implementation of a store, using SQLite; test-driven, Vagrant-ized
• Drupal module - Provides an Drupal based backend-store.
• MIT Annotation Data Store - An annotator-compatible data store written in Node.js + Express.js + MongoDB. Extended by @rsimon to accommodate the Annotorious image annotation plug-in.
• annotator store nodejs An annotator aplication with a nodejs, express.js, socket.io and MySQL.
• DEPRECATED annotator-store-flask - older and very simple store based on Python, Flask and Elixir/SQLite.

Who's Using It

• Open Shakespeare for making community-created critical editions of Shakespeare's works - see, for example, Annotated Hamlet on Open Shakespeare
• Siyavula - for annotating textbooks
• Hypothes.is
• PaperGrader.org - for annotating and grading academic papers
• AustESE - for annotations in the context of electronic scholarly editions
• Annotation Studio - an annotation tool for teaching and learning in the humanities, from MIT hyperstudio.
• [Universitat Oberta de Catalunya] (http://www.uoc.edu/) - for annotating subjects.

Contributors

If you'd like to contribute to the wiki you can do so using the GitHub interface or a better way is to check out the Wiki and modify it using a text editor. There's some basic instructions in the Gollum readme.