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Sharing and Contributing Annotations

Sean Boisen (sean@logos.com) Director of Content Innovation Logos Bible Software

About Logos

• Digital library platform for biblical studies

– 40k+ books, including texts in Greek, Hebrew, Aramaic, Latin, Ugaritic, … – Windows and Mac clients; mobile; browser

• Key functionality

– Reading, search – Automated aggregation and reporting – Hyperlinked information within our platform

Editorial Annotation

• Linguistic analysis

– Including contextual semantics

• Alignment across languages

– Map from source languages to multiple modern works

• Curated reference data annotated on

source texts

User Annotation Document Types

• Highlighting
• Notes
• Clippings (brief excerpts)
• Other specialized document types

– Bibliography – Passage list – Word list – Prayer list

Using Annotation Documents

• Display through visual filters
• Export in various formats
• Share via social network (Faithlife.com)
• Display community annotations when

reading

Areas of Interest for Open Annotation

• Standardized reference schemes

– Including mappings between versions and editions – OSIS is a start (http://www.bibletechnologies.net/)

• Cross-lingual word-level alignment
• Semantic annotation of domain-specific

datasets

• Bibliographic references
• Import annotations from the web or other

platforms

Questions?

• Follow-up

– sean@logos.com – Twitter: @seanboisen – http://logos.com