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Sunoikisis Digital Classics Spring/Summer 2018

Session 4. Text annotation

Thursday Feb 15, 2018, 16h00-17h15 Greenwich Mean Time

Convenors: Gabriel Bodard (Institute of Classical Studies), Monica Berti (Leipzig)

YouTube link: https://youtu.be/mTjZFRpc34M

Slides: tba

Description

This session will introduce the concept of scholarly annotation: adding information or commentary, internally or externally to a text, including examples from XML-tagging of names and places, the use of tools such as Perseids and Recogito. We shall discuss the new W3 standard for Web Annotations, and some tools for the creation and re-use of scholarly annotations.

Seminar readings

  • Almas B. & Beaulieu M. (2016). "The Perseids Platform: Scholarship for all!" In Romanello M. & Bodard G, Digital Classics Outside the Echo-Chamber. Ubiquity Press. Available: https://doi.org/10.5334/bat.j
  • Palladino, C. (2016), "New Approaches to Ancient Spatial Models: Digital Humanities and Classical Geography." Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, 59: 56–70. Available: http://doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-5370.2016.12038.x

Other resources

Essay title

  • Look at two different approaches to scholarly annotation of texts, and compare the tools and their functionality. Discuss how these differences reflect the different agendas of the teams and projects that created them, and what shortcomings might be addressed by different design approaches. Does specific functionality suffer from the more generic approach?

Exercise

Create an account on hypothes.is and use the browser-based annotation tool to add comments and entity references to an online version of an ancient text (e.g. a classical text—in the original or translation—from the Perseus Hopper. What sorts of decisions do you make about what to annotate and how to link entities to external sources? What can you do with the annotations once you have created them?

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