Apparently someone suggested on twitter last week that
Alex,
Mark and I might be keeping our tagginganna project secret. I just checked my blog and the last time I blogged about it was on
7 September when Alex presented at ALTC and before that it was July so I can quite understand why it might be thought we were being secretive. Unfortunately the reason is much more mundane; we've just been busy. The autumn term was a bit of a write-off for me because of the
acting-up, but we did make some progress using a new tool from Birmingham City University's
Research and Development Unit for English Studies (RDUES). This is how they describe the tool.
The wiki interface supports the collaborative close reading and analysis of texts, by allowing researchers, teachers and students to attach comments to individual words or phrases within these texts or to whole texts. These comments take the form of analyses or interpretations, and can generate intra- and inter-textual links.
The 'Wiki without a name' from RDEUS has been an exciting development and one we'll be reporting on when we have more data - but feedback from students so far has been very positive and we're looking forward to testing it further.
Meanwhile, we commissioned Eddie Tejeda, the creator of
Digress.it to do some development work on the site to make it more suitable for our needs. We are in the process of testing the developments but the items we requested were as follows:
- tag comments
- search comments
- layered tables of contents
Which seem to be nearly there. More to follow...
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