Supporting Open Scholarly Annotation

Anna GerberITEE eResearch GroupThe University of Queensland

Image: Robbery under arms / Rolf Boldrewood ; edited by P. Eggert and E. Webby, University of Queensland Press, St. Lucia, Qld, 2006

Scholarly Editions

Apparatus

• Provide accurate reading texts of works of literary, historical, theological or philosophical significance

• They contain:• historical and textual essays,• explanatory notes, • appendixes e.g. glossary• a scholarly apparatus that

provides access to alternative readings in other versions of the work

Scholarly Editing Annotation Use Cases

• Facilitate collaborative discussion of texts, sources and facsimiles– Comments– Questions– Replies

• Describe textual variation for apparatus – annotations linking multiple versions

• Align parts of transcriptions and facsimile images• Record notes

– Textual notes (about production of text)– Explanatory notes (meaning, historical context etc)– Link texts with facsimiles, reference secondary sources

Tools: lorestorelorestore Annotation Repository

Search, query, display, validate & subscribe to annotations & resource mapsSupports public and private annotations

Web UI to administer content and users

Optionally manage user accounts and permissions or hook into existing accounts system e.g. drupal

Annotation Validation

• Validation service to check constraints from the core spec

• Validation rules implemented as SPARQL 1.1 queries

SPARQL endpoint

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REST API• REST API for creating,

retrieving, updating, deleting and querying annotations & resource maps

• Supports multiple serialisations e.g. RDF/XML, JSON-LD

• Documented in developer docs built into lorestore web UI

• Atom feeds for query results

Annotation views

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AustESE Workbench• Transcriptions rendered to HTML from TEI/XML or plain text:• View Resource

page• Reading View

•Rendered from MVD:• Compare View• Table Apparatus

• Export to PDF• Export to Word• Etc.•Images at different zoom levels

Challenges

• Support the various types of annotation required by scholarly editors

• Annotate regions of text or images regardless of rendered view– E.g. HTML rendered directly from TEI vs as rendered via

collation tool, Images viewed directly vs images displayed through lightbox tool

• Allow annotation while transcriptions are still being edited/corrected

• Query and display annotations of text selections, textual variation across versions– When large sections text might have been transposed

• Restrict Annotation to certain parts of site

Tools: Annotator

AustESE Annotator• JavaScript Annotation client• Extends OKFN Annotator• Create, edit & display basic

annotations

AustESE Annotator Plugins

LoreStore

Maps the internal JSON data structure used to represent annotations in the Annotator system to an equivalent OA JSON-LD serialization. Also implements a protocol for communicating with our OA-compliant annotation repository.

Image Enables the selection and annotation of rectangular regions of images

CharacterRangeCalculates character offsets and text selections used to identify the part of the (text-based) resource being annotated across representations.

MotivationAllows users to attach custom Motivations (e.g. ExplanatoryNote, TextualNote, Glossary) to annotations.

Reply Enables discussion between editors, scholars and readers.

Prov Records and displays provenance (creator, creation time) for an Annotation.

Extending OA Motivation

Motivations Annotator Plugin

Explanatory Note Model

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Reply Annotator Plugin

Model for Replies

Reply RDF

<http://austese.net/lorestore/oa/5E080F7E12D492FA> { <http://austese.net/lorestore/oa/5E080F7E12D492FA> a oa:Annotation ; dc:language "en" ; dc:title "Re: Amen" ; oa:motivatedBy oa:replying ; oa:annotatedAt "2012-03-26T16:34:47.673+10:00"^^dcterms:W3CDTF ; oa:hasBody <urn:uuid:E20D57674C0B45769D6B20C72560E418> ; oa:hasTarget <http://austese.net/lorestore/oa/2DA0F9596B3BA7B6> . <urn:uuid:E20D57674C0B45769D6B20C72560E418> a cnt:ContentAsText ; cnt:characterEncoding "UTF-8" ; cnt:chars "While not deemed suitable for The Buln Buln and the Brolga, this passage is significant to the argument of Such is Life (1898). Furphy is much more concerned with exploring the 'fiction of facts' and the 'facts of fiction' in the typescript version. Returned to their previous context, the unrevised sections of the Buln Buln and the Brolga perform a different function in a significantly different narrative." .

}

Image Annotator Plugin

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Using the PluginsjQuery(el).annotator({'bindToDocument': true}) .annotator('addPlugin', 'Image') .annotator('addPlugin', 'Prov') .annotator('addPlugin', 'CharRangeSelection') .annotator('addPlugin', 'LoreStore') .annotator('addPlugin', 'Reply') .annotator('addPlugin', 'Motivations', { "showField": false, // will display via prov plugin instead "motivations": [ { value: "oa:Commenting", label: "Comment"}, { value: "oa:Questioning", label: "Question" }, { value: "austese:TextualNote", label: "Textual Note" }, …

Drupal Plugin

• Drupal 7 plugin to integrate AustESE annotator plugins with the AustESE Workbench– Loads and configures Annotator

and plugins for all transcriptions and content images

– Provides search UI– Adds HTML5 data attributes to

identify transcriptions and images (independently of format or page URI)

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Tools: lore

lore Annotation Client• Firefox add-on• create, edit, search, browse annotations

and resource maps

Open Source

• Annotation server– lorestore

• https://github.com/uq-eresearch/lorestore

• Annotation clients– lore

• https://github.com/uq-eresearch/lore

– AustESE Annotator Plugins• https://github.com/uq-eresearch/annotator

– Drupal plugin• https://github.com/uq-eresearch/austese_annotations

See http://uq-eresearch.github.io/AustESE/Contact: Anna Gerber <a.gerber@uq.edu.au>