System for annotating digital images within a wiki environment over the world wide web

摘要

We present a method and instruction set, stored in a computer-readable medium, to annotate digitized images of text and/or graphics within a hypermedia “Wiki” environment for delivery across the world wide web. The method and instruction set comprise (1) a defined data structure for the digitized image object and associated metadata; (2) a three-piece integrated system for creating/editing these digital objects, viewing these digital objects and incorporating these objects into a wiki page.