tagging and searching annotations

A request for a Drupal 5 backport can be found at #275206.

Annotations are stored in a separate database. I could make this available as a node indeed, though I am not sure of the real interest in that except for the search capability: is this really something people will use?

It would be interesting for example in the profil:
"Pictures related with user xy" and than there is a grid of pictures which were connected to the user.

I am about to commit a new version which support CCK imagefield rather than the image module, along with a new version of the jQuery. I keep these feature requests in mind and get back to you asap.

There is a dev version being published. From the direction I am taking, I will definitely need to setup some kind of plugin architecture to allow linking these annotations with more than just comments: once the beta is online I'll need your feedback to do it the smart way.

+1 the feature of annotations populating user reference fields, if that's what's being proposed...

Just finished to update a couple other modules: I will polish the image annotate module this week and will add a plugin structure for people to create new connectors. If you have ideas on best doing this, let me know.

The D6 version is now in beta, but the code will evolve in the next few weeks to allow having multiple types of annotations on pictures, including user reference and taonomy. I think I will implement a hook for that purpose so that people can easily add their plugin.