Abstract
Annotation and research in the humanities are tightly coupled. Annotations can be seen as expressions of research activity which can be turned into input data for subsequent research. The digital paradigm has profoundly altered the ways in which we humans can handle the information content of our sources and it also affects the practice of annotation. We explore new ways of annotation that were not feasible before the digital times, and we list a few requirements for annotation to act as a reliable source of research information. Rather than conducting an academic discussion on the ontology of annotations, we highlight practical use cases for new kinds of annotations. We illustrate those in a concrete system for linguistic annotations to the Hebrew Bible, SHEBANQ.
Highlights
In this article we focus on the logistics of information, rather than on the meaning
Academic research into the Bible occurs in several disciplines: linguistics, history, and theology with their specialties such as linguistic variation, historical linguistics, textual criticism, literary analysis, exegesis, and hermeneutics
Shebanq: a system for hebrew text The ETCBC is the department of the Faculty of Theology at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam that has created a linguistic text database of the Hebrew Bible.[5]
Summary
We show how the Hebrew Bible has been captured in a system of annotations and point to a number of non-trivial, innovative uses of the concept of annotation which were not possible or practical before the digital handling of information. Here we have it: a text with millions of annotations, online, in a working system: SHEBANQ (see Fig 1). 3. Queries as annotations that text and linguistic annotations reside in a database, it becomes possible to query both kinds of data.
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