neonion is a user-centered, web application for the collaborative annotation of texts developed at the Human-Centered Computing group at Freie Universität Berlin.

neonion supports semantic annotations and open standards but does not presuppose any knowledge about the technologies involved. It is the perfect fit for people who want their annotations to be exchangeable between different tools and projects. Moreover, your annotations can be connected to the linked data cloud.

neonion will provide several machine annotation processes (such as named entity recognition). Thus, it enables users to focus on real challenges while they can delegate necessary standard tasks to the machine. Our vision is to build an annotation application in which the human user and the machine work hand in hand to make your annotation tasks effectiv, efficient, and satisfying.

At the moment, neonion is developed together with scholars from the Humanities (esp. from the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science) by applying a user-centered design approach. This allows us to develop our tool closely with the prospective users, so that we reply to their needs directly. Thus, we ensure an intuitive utilization of neonion, either in the area of the Humanities or beyond. You can start working with neonion immediately after installing it.

neonion assists users by offering an intuitive web GUI for manual annotations, a document management tool, integrated machine annotation tools, and the possibility to share annotations and work collaboratively in teams.