[humanities-dev] Rendering *lots* of annotations

[Tom Oinn]

On 12 April 2012 15:46, Sam Leon <sam.leon at okfn.org> wrote:
> 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.

There will be controls to determine which annotations are displayed,
if any. This is just a stress test to check whether, in the unlikely
event of the user wanting it, we can display a lot of annotations all
at once - better to be able to do it and have it turned off than have
the thing crash if it's turned on!

> 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.

Absolutely.

Getting a bit closer to that mockup, annotations now link out to what
will become annotation summaries (they're just dummy elements at the
moment but the bar on the right will show summary information for each
annotation). I know it's not very clear at the moment, I'm working on
making it more obvious which annotations apply to which summary -
partly this is colour selection which in this example is completely
random!

http://i.imgur.com/lU3np.png - the panel on the right scrolls when
there are too many annotation summaries, this example has about 60
annotations which is probably more than we'll typically need to
display.

Tom

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