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Crowdsourcing Annotation and the Social Edition : Ossian Online
Barr, Rebecca Anne; Tonra, Justin (2014)James Macpherson s Ossian poems were the international sensation of the eighteenth-century. First published in 1760, Macpherson s work caused a literary furore. Ostensibly translations from Gaelic manuscripts, the poems ... -
For the Sake of Argument: Crowdsourcing Annotation of Macpherson's Ossian
Barr, Rebecca Anne; Tonra, Justin (2014)The argument presented by a scholarly edition can usually be traced to the vision of a single editor or a very small group of editors. But is it possible or even desirable for an edition to present multiple, perhaps competing, ... -
Manuscript Transcription: the Habits of Crowds
Tonra, Justin (2013)Paper describes author's involvement in Transcribe Bentham, a project established to crowdsource transcriptions of the manuscripts of Jeremy Bentham, and reflects more generally on the issues at stake in crowdsourcing ... -
Ossian Online: Crowdsourcing Annotation and the Social Edition
Barr, Rebecca Anne; Kelly, David; Tonra, Justin (2014)This Digital Demo will present Ossian Online, a social edition of the sequence of eighteenth-century works known collectively as the Ossian poems. Initially presented by Scottish writer James Macpherson as fragments of ... -
Reading Nations, Debating Identities: New Approaches to Macpherson's Ossian
Barr, Rebecca Anne; Tonra, Justin (2014)Ossian Online is a project which will harness social media and new reading technologies to crowdsource annotations to the sequence of eighteenth-century works known collectively as the Ossian poems. The project will ... -
Using Distributional Semantics to Trace Influence and Imitation in Romantic Orientalist Poetry
Aggarwal, Nitish; Tonra, Justin; Buitelaar, Paul (ACL, 2014-08-23)In this paper, we investigate whether textual analysis can yield evidence of shared vocabulary orformal textual characteristics in the works of 19th century poets Lord Byron and Thomas Moorein the genre of Romantic ...