Document journaling

摘要

A method, device and system for acquiring information related to annotations and the content of a document. Annotations are isolated from document content and are associated with portions of the content of the document. Annotations and content are used as a basis for a semantic search of a corpus of other documents. From the corpus, related information is extracted and presented or made available along side of or with the original content and annotations of the document. Each version of a document is stored and made accessible. Any of the versions of a document, with or without a current set of annotations, may be distributed to others for further review and annotation. Annotations are protected and associated with a level of privilege or rights. Annotations are trackable over time and location and are associated with a particular annotator.

主权项

1. A method in a computer system for finding and presenting information, the method comprising:
acquiring an image of a first copy of a document having original information and one or more first annotations; isolating the one or more first annotations of the document; performing a semantic evaluation of the one or more isolated first annotations; performing a semantic evaluation of the original information; creating an association between a portion of the isolated first annotations and one or more portions of the original information; performing a semantic search for related information from a corpus of documents using at least one of a portion of the isolated first annotations and a portion of the original information, the corpus of documents including a plurality of historical documents including one or more prior annotations previously made thereto, wherein the semantic search includes comparing a grammatical relationship in the portion of the isolated first annotations or the portion of the original information to the one or more prior annotations included in the plurality of historical documents and to data in the plurality of historical documents; identifying related information based at least in part upon the semantic search for related information from the corpus of documents, wherein the related information comprises one or more of the one or more prior annotations previously made to the historical documents and data in one of the historical documents of the plurality of historical documents; storing the related information, at least a portion of the created association, at least a portion of the isolated first annotations or at least a portion of the one or more portions of the original information; acquiring an image of a second copy of the document having original information and one or more second annotations; isolating the one or more second annotations in the second copy of the document; performing a semantic evaluation of the isolated second annotations; creating an association between a portion of the isolated second annotations and the one or more portions of the original information; storing at least a portion of the created association between the portion of the isolated second annotations and one or more portions of the original information; retrieving from the document a geolocation identifier for the document, the geolocation identifier indicating a location of the document at the time the document was previously annotated or marked up; and retrieving a geolocation identifier associated with the isolated first annotations and the isolated second annotations.