Annotations

PresQT Final Report

Don Brower, Hesburgh Libraries, Univ. of Notre Dame

Peter Cornwell, Data Futures

Annotations?

Stand-Off Annotation

IIIF Server

Database

Alternative

Futures

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

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

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

• 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

Student Projects