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Annotations

PresQT Final Report

Don Brower, Hesburgh Libraries, Univ. of Notre Dame

Peter Cornwell, Data Futures

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Annotations?

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Stand-Off Annotation

IIIF Server

Database

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Alternative

Futures

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Quick-start international collaboration

  • Data Futures hasdai partnership with CERN and the Hesburgh Libraries organized a remote, and previously-unscheduled annotation work-plan during Spring and Winter Semesters 2020
  • Ad-hoc international workforce: undergraduate students, some graduate students, plus some staff in France, Germany, Switzerland and U.S.
  • included many people who were otherwise unable to work due to COVID stay-at-home orders

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Secure annotation infrastructure

  • ORCID sign-in to identify workers and provide secure access to workflow https://auth.hasdai.org/
  • Contributors not having an ORCID had to register one; whitelist for team management and rejection of unwanted contributors
  • Data Futures annəstore cloud annotation service divided each annotation task into discrete work-units, tracked progress and enabled contributors to review and re-work units they’d already completed

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Reduced training needs

  • Administration website and shared how-to Google docs
  • Same sign-in and work-on ‘task’ how-to document for all annotation tasks
  • detailed task-specific instruction documents and helpdesk’ via email, with possibility of video-call follow-up
  • no other training provided

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  • thousands of maintainable annotations produced international community
  • standards-based WADM datasets—can be consumed by multiple applications and directly accepted by repositories such as Zenodo e.g. doi:10.5281/zenodo.2580998

Preservable research outputs

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Student Projects

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