Methods | Advantages | Disadvantages |
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Simple annotation | • Available • Easy | • Full texts must be available • Ties user to original highlighted PDF • Difficult to update • Requires PDF editor |
Descriptive addressing | • Available • Applicable to any PDF of same report • Update is possible • No editing required in PDF | • Full texts must be available • Less easy than simple annotation • Uniformity of location definition could be problematic |
Cartesian coordinates | • Possibility of hyperlinking from data to report • Possibility of automating data quality check • Ease of update | • Full texts must be available • Piloting––unavailable to wide use |