Topic: Use cases

co-ment for law making

Exciting applications of co-ment® for law-making processes are developing in the European parliament, in France, or in Brazil. Initially, this usage was at the initiative of civil society groups. Today, Members of Parliaments are using co-ment themselves to interact with the public when laws and other parliamentary texts are prepared of discussed. In our featured example, the ALDE and Green groups of the European Parliament jointly prepared, at the initiative of ALDE MEP Marietje Schaake, a resolution on ACTA. Close to a hundred comments were submitted, and the affluence of thousand of readers was such for a few hours that we experimented a temporary overflow of our servers, that we are now equipping for future demanding usage of this type.

In France, a a href=”https://cpaul.co-ment.com/” alt=”link to co-ment instance”>remarkable collaborative exercise was conducted by socialist MP Christian Paul for the preparation of a French law proposal on network neutrality. More than 200 comments were submitted by interested parties and experts. You can access the diff display illustrating the changes made to the law further to these comments.

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co-ment in education

Collective school work on an excerpt of Julius Caesar

Some of the greatest use cases of co-ment® are for education, in particular first language and literature teaching in secondary education. The co-ment team has supported usage by a number of pioneers in text-centered teaching. Typically, educational use of co-ment is pure annotation, in contrast to other use cases where the collective production and revision of text play a key role. co-ment is used for the collaborative preparation of lessons (teachers annotating texts) and for classroom usage (students commenting texts). We are excited by these use cases.

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co-ment for companies and government

Text drafting and validation is at the heart of daily practice in companies and government (local government, public agencies, for instance). In most cases, a given document has one or a small number of drafters, whose productions must be reviewed by other agents, managers, or external partners. co-ment® was designed precisely for this type of situation. co-ment 1 was used for instance in the l’French Environment and Energy Management Agency ADEME. co-ment 2 PRO provides a much improved work environment for this type of usage.

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co-ment for licenses and contracts

Revision of the Mozilla Public License

Text annotation may be as old as writing and is superbly documented in the middle-ages in both the Arabic world and Talmudic tradition. Computer-based marginal text annotation was experimented from the beginning of the 1990s. However, a key real-scale experiment for Web-based text annotations was the STET system used in the GNU GPL license revision process. Though it uses no code from STET, co-ment® has derived inspiration from its interface.

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co-ment for legal analysis

Legal texts annotation within the DEMOTIS project

co-ment® 2 is being used for the collective analysis by scholars of the legal framework applicable to health information. Within the DEMOTIS project, funded by the French National Research agency (ANR), legal scholars and computer scientists annotate the large body of texts that have a bearing on the design of personal health information systems. This collaborative work will lead to the on-line publication of the annotated corpus.

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co-ment in advocacy

Use of co-ment 1 by the Dutch advocacy group Bits of Freedom
Use of co-ment 1 by the Dutch advocacy group Bits of Freedom

Advocacy groups have made exciting usage of co-ment® for the preparation of open letters, position statements, opinion editorials or charters. Some groups work from the start in the open, but in most cases, there is an initial phase of elaboration of a draft within a group followed by opening it to comments by the public. In some cases, tens of versions have been produced over 48 hours, each version receiving tens or hundreds of comments before being revised. co-ment can enable the synergy between massive commenting and collective drafting.

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