emargin presentation given summer 2012
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emargin.bcu.ac.uk
Research & DevelopmentUnit for English Studies
Matt Gee & Andrew Kehoe
A collaborative textual annotation tool
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Literary StudyHow do you study a literary text?
‘Close Reading’: detailed study of short text extracts down to individual word level.
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• (re-)read the text
• underline important words
• make notes in margin
• colour-code
• draw out themes/motifs
• (re-)read the text
• underline important words
• make notes in margin
• colour-code
• draw out themes/motifs
• Text quickly becomes cluttered with underlining/ notes on each re-reading
• Annotations tied to printed copy of text
• Annotations not archivable / searchable
• Text quickly becomes cluttered with underlining/ notes on each re-reading
• Annotations tied to printed copy of text
• Annotations not archivable / searchable
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Increasing emphasis on e-texts
but surprising lack of software to
support close reading.
Difficult to annotate
Difficult to share annotations
Not fine-grained enough for
academic study
Increasing emphasis on e-texts
but surprising lack of software to
support close reading.
Difficult to annotate
Difficult to share annotations
Not fine-grained enough for
academic study
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Demonstration…
Our solution:
Web-based collaborative annotation system operating down to word level.
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HIGHLIGHT CLICKED
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MULTIPLE ANNOTATIONS
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MOUSE DRAGGED
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COMMENT ENTERED
ANNOTATION SAVED
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ANNOTATION ADDED TO TEXT, AVAILABLE TO
OTHER USERS
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ANNOTATION OPENED
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REPLY ENTERED
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REPLY SAVED, AVAILABLE TO OTHER
USERS
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NEW HIGHLIGHT
COLOUR CHOSEN
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TAG ENTERED
ANNOTATION SAVED
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TAG SAVED IN ANNOTATION
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TAG CLOUD
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LOOK UP HIGHLIGHTED TEXT IN THE OED(FOR EXAMPLE)
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INTERESTING, YEAH?
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Possible Future Features• Integration with Virtual Learning Environments
– Seamless transition between VLE and eMargin
• Layers of annotation on single texts
– Named layers
– Turn layers on/off
• Annotation of multi-media
– Images, Audio, Video
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Possible Future Features• Integrate Corpus Linguistic methods
– Collect texts in a corpus
– Tools
• Concordancing
• Wordlists
• Keywords
• Ngrams
• Collocation
• Import and Export
– XML
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Future Plans• Keep developing and keep trialing with end-users
• Explore use in Literature, Linguistics, Acting and Stage Management
• eMargin transferable to any text-based discipline: Law, Social Sciences, History, Theology, Languages
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