[humanities-dev] Rendering *lots* of annotations

[Sam Leon]

Hi Christian,

You highlight an important point.

Tom can correct me if I am wrong, but the idea is that by default a 'clean'
text is displayed.

You are then told how many annotations there are for a given section and
toggle the annotations on and off -- even choosing to just display the
annotations of a particular user (and eventually group).

Tom's recent mock-up shows some of these details:
http://textusproject.org/2012/04/10/annotations-mock-up/

This avoids the problem of being overloaded with annotations when you are
reading.

I think what Tom is trying to show here is that the system he has developed
so far can actually cope with lots of overlapping annotations something
that has been problematic for the Annotator.

Sam

On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 3:23 PM, Christian Morbidoni <
christian.morbidoni at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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!
> >
> >
> > 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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