GARSS: A Generic Annotation and Recommendation Service System for Digital Repositories

The popularity of Web 2.0 and social networking has greatly promoted user interactions in Internet services and changed the service delivery model. As typical Internet service providers, traditional digital repositories are facing two increasing demands: introducing user participation and providing personalized services. For the former, annotating digital resources and sharing the annotations with other users has been a natural service paradigm in the social networking context. For the latter, user-generated annotations in return can help digital repositories to supply personalized services such as recommendation. This paper proposes a Generic Annotation and Recommendation Service System (GARSS), which provides a SaaS solution to enhancing digital repositories with annotation and recommendation services. We presented the design and implementation of GARSS, and an example is shown to demonstrate the usage of GARSS services.