Following is a summary of my lightning talk on Annotum2Go at the August WordPress DC meetup.

Annotum Theme

Open-source WordPress theme for open access scientific publishing

• Supports the National Library of Medicine’s XML Journal Article Tag Suite, aka JATS-XML.
• Rich editing (equations, figures, references), workflow/approval, and multi-author collaboration.
• Successor to Google Knol
• Available on WordPress.com, .org
• Widely used – 200k downloads to date
• PLoS Currents: http://currents.plos.org/genomictests/
• More information:  http://annotum.org

Annotum stand-alone use cases

• Individual users creating articles: http://annotum.org/system-vision-and-use-cases/ (i.e., using Annotum like MS-Word to create JATS-XML documents)
• Development environment while traveling or otherwise offline

Server2Go

• Stand-alone WAMP stack
• Windows, Apache, MySQL, PHP
• Runs from disk, USB, CD
• Open-source and free
• Easily configurable

Important: be sure to set Server2Go to save changes (i.e., non-CD mode) as described here.

http://www.server2go-web.de/ [Donationware]

 Annotum2Go

• Pre-configured Annotum runtime environment
• Custom icon, splash screen (‘gold’ level support from Server2Go)
• Distributed with FireFox Portable for use in “IE-only” environments e.g Government offices
• Installs and runs without admin privileges in most cases
• Completely stand-alone – no internet connection required.
• Tip: to allow your Annotum2Go (or Server2Go) setup to send mail, install Mercury Mail (and see the instructions in this Gist).
• Download Annotum2Go: https://github.com/Annotum/Annotum/wiki/Downloads

IMPORTANT: This distribution is intended for personal use on a local system only. It has not been checked for security or stability on servers or on systems accessible from the Internet.

Other Platforms

Running a Mac? a Mac version of Annotum2Go available on the Annotum wiki download page (uses MAMP)

Running a Chromebook? Check out this article on installing a LAMP stack on ChromeOS.

No computer (just a browser)? Check out Koding for a free Linux VM in the cloud with in-browser editing and shell access.

Annotum2Go Demo

Download, unzip and run. That’s it!

Annotum is a product of Solvitor LLC with heavy lifting by Crowd Favorite.

Special thanks to: Google, PLoS, NIH/NLM/NCBI, and Automattic.

Annotum is free (speech and beer).

Contact Carl @gcto on twitter or via http://solvitor.com/contact

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