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Making Sense in the Margins: A Field Study of Annotation

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Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries (TPDL 2011)

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We report on three years of data collected in the field from students in graduate and undergraduate seminars at two universities. The students annotated texts for discussion in classes where hypertext and computer interfaces were core topics. The results of our analysis show how annotation style changes with a combination of experience and study of material related to annotation. Our major conclusions are that there are essentially six purposes for scholarly user-readers to annotate; and support for textual glosses is a necessary part of any successful annotation technology for such use. Our study suggests tools that will be appreciated by e-text users.

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  1. Faculty of Computer Sci. & School of Info. Mgmt., Dalhousie University, Canada

    James Blustein

  2. Hypertext Augmenting Intelligent Knowledge Use (HAIKU) Project, Canada

    James Blustein, David Rowe & Ann-Barbara Graff

  3. Faculty of Computer Science, Dalhousie University, Canada

    David Rowe

  4. English Studies, Nipissing University, Canada

    Ann-Barbara Graff

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  1. Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Unter den Linden 6, 10099, Berlin, Germany

    Stefan Gradmann

  2. Consiglio Nazionale delle Richerche, Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell’Informazione, Via Moruzzi, 1, 56124, Pisa, Italy

    Francesca Borri

  3. Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto della Scienza e delle Tecnologie della Informazione, 56124, Pisa, Italy

    Carlo Meghini

  4. Databases and Information Systems Group, University of Basel, Bernoullistr. 16, 5056, Basel, Switzerland

    Heiko Schuldt

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Blustein, J., Rowe, D., Graff, AB. (2011). Making Sense in the Margins: A Field Study of Annotation. In: Gradmann, S., Borri, F., Meghini, C., Schuldt, H. (eds) Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries. TPDL 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6966. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-24469-8_27

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