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emargin.bcu.ac.uk
Research & DevelopmentUnit for English Studies
Matt Gee & Andrew Kehoe
A collaborative textual annotation tool
Literary StudyHow do you study a literary text?
‘Close Reading’: detailed study of short text extracts down to individual word level.
• (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
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
Demonstration…
Our solution:
Web-based collaborative annotation system operating down to word level.
HIGHLIGHT CLICKED
MULTIPLE ANNOTATIONS
MOUSE DRAGGED
COMMENT ENTERED
ANNOTATION SAVED
ANNOTATION ADDED TO TEXT, AVAILABLE TO
OTHER USERS
ANNOTATION OPENED
REPLY ENTERED
REPLY SAVED, AVAILABLE TO OTHER
USERS
NEW HIGHLIGHT
COLOUR CHOSEN
TAG ENTERED
ANNOTATION SAVED
TAG SAVED IN ANNOTATION
TAG CLOUD
LOOK UP HIGHLIGHTED TEXT IN THE OED(FOR EXAMPLE)
INTERESTING, YEAH?
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
Possible Future Features• Integrate Corpus Linguistic methods
– Collect texts in a corpus
– Tools
• Concordancing
• Wordlists
• Keywords
• Ngrams
• Collocation
• Import and Export
– XML
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
emargin.bcu.ac.uk
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