Knowledge object and collaboration management system

A point management system, comprising a processor, and a non-transitory computer readable storage medium having instructions that, when executed by the processor, instantiate:

• a literal database, programmed to store a plurality of literal objects;
• a snip database programmed to store a plurality of snip objects, wherein each snip object in the plurality of snip objects comprises:
• an excerpt of digital content from a literal object stored in the literal database;
• at least one piece of snip metadata input by a user;
• a snip location corresponding with the location of the excerpt of digital content within the literal object;
• a point authoring module coupled with the snip database and programmed to:
• provide a user interface configured to allow a user to generate a set of points;
• generate a query in real-time based on key words according to user input;
• submit the query to the snip database;
• receive a result set of snip objects from the snip database that satisfy the query;
• instantiate a point object based on the set of snips;
• link the point object to at least one of the snip objects in the result set;
• and
• configure a device to store the point object;
• and
• a snip verification engine coupled with the snip database and the literal database, programmed to:
• detect an interaction with the point object;
• expand the point object to display at least one of the set of snip objects within the point object;
• detect an interaction with a snip object from the at least one of the set of snip objects within the point object;
• instantiate a literal viewer including the literal object associated with the snip object, by looking up the literal object within the literal database, wherein the literal viewer comprises:
• at least one snip location;
• and
• at least one piece of snip metadata;
• and
• render the snip within the document according to the literal viewer.