Post on 21-Jan-2018
NISO Webinar, January 10, 2018
Annotation in the Spectrum of Engagement
Kent R. Anderson
CEO, RedLink
About RedLink RedLink is an independent start-up devoted to
helping publishers, institutions, and end-users “see
what they’re missing” by building data and data-
related services in interesting and useful ways. Our
products include Publisher Dashboard, Library
Dashboard, SiteLeads™, RedLink Network, and
Remarq®.Q
Version of Record
HTML
Authors, Editors, Core Readers, Members
• More time on site
• Lower bounce rates for new and returning users
• More frequent visits
• More content consumed per visit
• A greater likelihood of returning in a given week
• Deeper reading
What Is
Engagement
?
Q
Private
Private notes
Highlighting
Search
Private groups
Q
Semi-public
Follow articles
Article sharing
Profiles
Protected
groups
Public
Comments
Author updates
Editor updates
Public groups
Engagement Occurs on a Spectrum
The Genius Use-case for Annotation
• Annotations initiated by editors and journalists at the
Washington Post
• Created a new article type (“annotated”)
• No annotation tool for readers, but comments on
journalists’ annotations are allowed (post-publication
moderation)
The Genius
Approach
Q
Annotation in scholarship and education
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• Adding or updating references
• Adding or updating data links and sources
• Promoting further research by the same author(s)
• Promoting related talks, guidelines, or reviews
• Answering questions arising from current related
events
Scholarly
Use-cases
Q
• Group collaboration or discussions
• Focused and intensive textual study and critique
• Assignment and collaboration with instructors
• Instructor-driven annotation and critique
• Project-inspired collaboration across sources
• Broader research for advanced pursuits
Education
Use-cases
Q
• Specialized annotation (e.g., math, data, figures, tables)
• Identification within the scholarly realm (disambiguation)
• Roles and relationships around the scholarly record
• Facilitating social engagement
• Creating longitudinal engagement
• HTML, PDF, and EPUB annotation
• Balancing broad annotation with journal-based
Challenges
in Scholarly
Annotation
Q
• Single user profile across sites, platforms
• Ability for users to follow other users
• Robust profile pages
• HTML PDF comments and notes
• Publisher-approved article sharing
• Editorial and author updates
• Analytics and administrative tools
How We’ve Addressed
These Challenges with
Remarq®
Q
Tools for Authors & Editors
Editors receive contextual ability to use the
Comment feature to invite experts to
comment on articles, and then can
collaborate with these experts to finalize
their comments, then “pin” them to the top
of comment threads.
Authors and editors are invited to update
users following articles.
Authors and editors can search for their
papers, and claim them to their profiles.
Remarq staff verify all claims.
Administrative Tools and Analytics
Statistics
Preferences
Authors
For Moderators
Moderators and Editors
Comments
For Editors
Statistics
Author Updates
Pinned Comments
Number of Private Notes
Number of Highlights
Number of Author Updates
Number of Public Comments
Number of Users
Number of Authors
Number of Authorships
Specify comment curation policy
Specify author update approval policy
Specify invited comment approval policyAdd authors associated with your papers
Approve claimed paper authorships
Edit author details (DOI, email address)Add and manage moderators and editors
Update or change credentials
Approve or delete comments
Review comments
Number of Author Updates
Number of authors
Approve, edit, collaborate on updates
Review author updates
Invite and manage expert commentary
Collaborate with commentators
”Pin” expert comments to frame discussion
• Create public, private, or protected groups
• Users can discuss articles, particular
sections of articles, or other topics
• Publishers or users can create groups
• Suggested groups based on user profiles
• Easy, intuitive interfaces and functions
Remarq:
Groups
Q
• Free browser plugin with core Remarq functionality
• Bridges Remarq into educational market and use-cases
• Combines with Groups to drive high engagement
• Supports group projects, classroom exercises, and
independent study
• Works across the Web
• Integrates with full Remarq implementations
Remarq™ Lite:
Collaborate
anywhere
Q
• Comparisons before and after implementation
• Comparisons within portfolios where some journals
have Remarq and others do not
• More than 60 journals involved in the dataset
• New features introduced over the time period,
including Follow Articles, ORCID integration,
MathJax, and Groups (private, protected, and public)
Results
Q
Q
Q
• Engagement is a multi-modal activity, with annotation
a part of a larger whole
• Roles help to define annotation possibilities
• Private annotation and other non-public engagement
options are more popular than public annotation
• Social connections are popular and sought after
Lessons
Q
NISO Webinar, January 10, 2018
Thank You
Kent R. Anderson
CEO, RedLink