Annotum Picks Up Google's Abandoned Knol

Following the announcement that Google would be shutting down its Knol project for user-written articles, the company has worked with Solvitor and Crowd Favorite to create Annotum. Based on WordPress, Annotum is an open source authoring and publishing platform for scholarly works.

The Annotum project set out with two objectives: firstly to develop a robust and easy to use authoring system for creating scholarly articles, and secondly, to create a system that allows users to submit, review and publish those articles...