GATE Teamware: Collaborative Annotation Factories
From the webpage:
Teamware is a web-based management platform for collaborative annotation & curation. It is a cost-effective environment for annotation and curation projects, enabling you to harness a broadly distributed workforce and monitor progress & results remotely in real time.
It’s also very easy to use. A new project can be up and running in less than five minutes. (As far as we know, there is nothing else like it in this field.)
GATE Teamware delivers a multi-function user interface over the Internet for viewing, adding and editing text annotations. The web-based management interface allows for project set-up, tracking, and management:
- Loading document collections (a “corpus” or “corpora”)
- Creating re-usable project templates
- Initiating projects based on templates
- Assigning project roles to specific users
- Monitoring progress and various project statistics in real time
- Reporting of project status, annotator activity and statistics
- Applying GATE-based processing routines (automatic annotations or post-annotation processing)
I have known about the GATE project in general for years and came to this site after reading: Crowdsourced Legal Case Annotation.
Could be the basis for annotations that are converted into a topic map, but…, I have been a sysadmin before. Maintaining servers, websites, software, etc. Great work, interesting work, but not what I want to be doing now.
Then I read:
Where to get it? The easiest way to get started is to buy a ready-to-run Teamware virtual server from GATECloud.net.
Not saying it will or won’t meet your particular needs, but, certainly is worth a “look see.”
Let me know if you take the plunge!