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eMargin Presentation given Summer 2012
1. A collaborative textual annotation tool
Matt Gee & Andrew Kehoe
Research & Development
Unit for English Studies
emargin.bcu.ac.uk
2. Literary Study
How do you study a literary text?
‘Close Reading’: detailed study of short text extracts
down to individual word level.
3.
4. • Text quickly becomes
• (re-)read the text
cluttered with underlining/
• underline important words notes on each re-reading
• make notes in margin • Annotations tied to printed
copy of text
• colour-code
• Annotations not
• draw out themes/motifs
archivable / searchable
5. is on e-texts
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but surpri sing lack of softw
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support close rea
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annotations
Difficult to share
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academic study
22. Possible Future Features
• Integration with Virtual Learning Environments
– Seamless transition between VLE and eMargin
• Layers of annotation on single texts
– Named layers
– Turn layers on/off
• Annotation of multi-media
– Images, Audio, Video
23. Possible Future Features
• Integrate Corpus Linguistic methods
– Collect texts in a corpus
– Tools
• Concordancing
• Wordlists
• Keywords
• Ngrams
• Collocation
• Import and Export
– XML
24. Future Plans
• Keep developing and keep trialing with end-users
• Explore use in Literature, Linguistics, Acting and
Stage Management
• eMargin transferable to any text-based discipline:
Law, Social Sciences, History, Theology,
Languages
emargin.bcu.ac.uk