[humanities-dev] Rendering *lots* of annotations

[Christian Morbidoni]

Nice indeed :-)
I'm wondering how the user interaction works in this case. it is
actually possible to open an annotation and understan what text it
refers to?

One of the things I'm doubtful about okfn annotator is: is it a good
thing to automaticallly highlight all the annotations in a page? An
other approach (honestly I'm not sure is better) that we use in SemLib
is to put a button near each annotated piece of text to highlight one
annotation at a time. In the case of so many annotation it would
behave very bad of course as it would make the text unreadable. What
you think?

BTW, an other thing: I noticed that with annotator (at least in
http://openshakespeare.org/) is not possible to annotate a sub-part of
an already annotated text. Is it intentional or a bug?
For example in http://openshakespeare.org/work/hamlet there is an
annotation on "A piece of him". If i try to annotate "piece", the
button does not appear.

best,

Christian


On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 3:20 PM, Sam Leon <sam.leon at okfn.org> wrote:
> Beautiful!
>
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> On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 1:20 PM, Tom Oinn <tom.oinn at okfn.org> wrote:
>>
>> ...I was building some test data to stress test the rendering engine
>> for Textus, the good news is that not only does it cope with many
>> (thousands) of overlapping annotations, but it also produces something
>> strangely visually pleasing (if you like random coloured boxes that
>> is)
>>
>> http://www.crypticsquid.com/textus/capture.png
>>
>> (no, I know this isn't actually useful, but it does show we don't need
>> to worry about whether the renderer can display a lot of annotations
>> simultaneously, something Annotator has issues with)
>>
>> Tom
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