~ GhentCDH at the Faculty Research Day

The research day of the faculty of Arts and Philosophy of Ghent University took place last November. The theme of the day was ‘From Source to Understanding’ and the program gave an overview of the breadth of research at our faculty with topics as logic, history, archeology, chemistry, geography, language studies, … There were several contributions by our group: the Ghent Center for Digital Humanities. The contribution by me and my close colleagues was a poster about a reusable text annotation building block.

Fig: Poster on a text annotation component.

At GhentCDH we support several text annotation projects and have extracted a text annotation component for reuse. The abstract reads:

“Text annotation is essential for analyzing ancient texts, identifying entities in texts, or documenting evolving grammar. There is a need for reusable annotation methods which copes with challenges such as overlapping annotations, filtering annotation types, and enabling large-scale collaboration and computational analysis on text annotation work.

We present a reusable text annotation component built with TypeScript and Vue 3. It provides an intuitive interface for creating, visualizing, and editing annotations, it allows component users to enrich annotations with complex metadata, and facilitates flexible annotation filtering. This solution meets many needs of researchers in digital humanities and ancient language studies and will be used in several GhentCDH projects.”

Get more info, try it out and use it in your project by checking the text annotator source code repository.

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