A formal model of annotations of digital content

Agosti, Maristella; Ferro, Nicola

doi:10.1145/1292591.1292594

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“… dynamic hyperlinking across key sections of retrieved documents  adaptively composing and presenting responses which combine key elements of the retrieved documents  providing guidance for the analysis of the retrieved documents  providing facilities to add and search digital annotations [6].…”

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CULTURA: A Metadata-Rich Environment to Support the Enhanced Interrogation of Cultural Collections

Hampson

Lawless

Bailey

et al. 2012

Communications in Computer and Information Science

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Abstract. The increased digitisation of cultural collections, and their availability on the World Wide Web, has made access to these valuable documents much easier than ever before. However, despite the increased availability of access to cultural archives, curators still struggle to instigate and enhance engagement with these resources. The CULTURA project is actively addressing this issue through the development of a metadata-driven personalisation environment for navigating cultural collections and instigating collaborations. The corpus agnostic CULTURA environment also supports a full spectrum of users: ranging from professional researchers seeking patterns in the data and trying to answer complex queries; to interested members of the public who need help navigating a vast collection of resources. This paper discusses the state of the art in this area and the various innovative approaches used in the CULTURA project, with a special focus on how the underlying metadata helps facilitate its semantically rich environment.

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Section: Personalisation and Adaption Techniques In Culturamentioning

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CULTURA: A Metadata-Rich Environment to Support the Enhanced Interrogation of Cultural Collections

Hampson

Lawless

Bailey

et al. 2012

Communications in Computer and Information Science

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“…FAST adopts and implements the formal model for annotations proposed in [7] which has also been utilised in the reference model for digital libraries 3 developed by DELOS [12] and now carried on by DL.org 4 , the European coordination action on digital library interoperability, best practices and modelling foundations. In the following, we discuss the proposed model in an intuitive way and by means of examples; the reader interested in its formal foundations can refer to [7].…”

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“…In the following, we discuss the proposed model in an intuitive way and by means of examples; the reader interested in its formal foundations can refer to [7].…”

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“…Consider the document-annotation hypertext H da = (DO, E) where DO is a set of digital objects (either documents or annotations) and E is a set of edges indicating that an annotation is annotating a digital object, as introduced in [5,7].…”

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“…It can be noted as these different notions of annotation partially overlap or share commonalities. For a thorough review of the various viewpoints about annotations, please refer to [3,7].…”

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Annotation Search: The FAST Way

Ferro

2009

Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries

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Social validation of collective annotations: Definition and experiment

Cabanac

Chevalier

Chrisment

et al. 2009

J. Am. Soc. Inf. Sci.

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People taking part in argumentative debates through collective annotations face a highly cognitive task when trying to estimate the group's global opinion. In order to reduce this effort, we propose in this paper to model such debates prior to evaluating their "social validation." Computing the degree of global confirmation (or refutation) enables the identification of consensual (or controversial) debates. Readers as well as prominent information systems may thus benefit from this information. The accuracy of the social validation measure was tested through an online study conducted with 121 participants. We compared their human perception of consensus in argumentative debates with the results of the three proposed social validation algorithms. Their efficiency in synthesizing opinions was demonstrated by the fact that they achieved an accuracy of up to 84%. Introduction and MotivationsAnnotating paper documents is a common activity practiced since the early middle ages (Fraenkel & Klein, 1999). Field studies show that readers still make extensive use of annotations nowadays (Marshall, 1998;Wolfe & Neuwirth, 2001). Although seemingly insignificant, they actually facilitate key purposes such as "active reading" by supporting critical thinking while reading (Adler & van Doren, 1972), learning by facilitating document appropriation, and proofreading, among many others. With the widespread adoption of digital documents both in the workplace and at home, people have felt frustrated at not being able to annotate them (Sellen & Harper, 2003, p. 96). Such a need led both research labs and companies to design a plethora of annotation systems-mostly targeting Web documents-since the 1990s (Wolfe, 2002). At first, they implemented the usual paper-based annotation functions, mainly for personal use. Then, taking advantage of modern computer storage and networking capabilities, annotation systems provided novel features for collective use. In particular, they enabled annotation sharing through dedicated servers, so that users could view and access them in context, i.e., within the annotated document. Moreover, subsequent readers may later reply to any annotation or any reply in turn, thus forming a debate anchored to the discussed passage. Such a debate is also called a "discussion thread" (e.g., Figure 1).As an asynchronous way of communicating, collective annotations (i.e., annotations along with their discussion threads) are useful at two levels:• From the readers' point of view, collective annotations enable them to discuss document passages in context. This is an advantage in comparison with Internet bulletin boards and forums where one needs to explain the context of his/her post to be understood. Moreover, feedback about a given annotated document is directly accessible to readers, whereas it would be scattered over multiple sources otherwise. Besides being useful for readers, authors also benefit from collective annotations as they can improve their documents by taking into account the associated remarks.• For syste...

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A formal model of annotations of digital content

Cited by 87 publications

References 56 publications

CULTURA: A Metadata-Rich Environment to Support the Enhanced Interrogation of Cultural Collections

CULTURA: A Metadata-Rich Environment to Support the Enhanced Interrogation of Cultural Collections

Annotation Search: The FAST Way

Social validation of collective annotations: Definition and experiment

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