The Highbrow Textual Annotation Browser

Visualizing an Entire Commentary Tradition

Reinhard Engels

Harvard Library

The most heavily annotated parts of the Bible

Visual Fingerprint of Commentator’s Relationship with the work

Dynamic: Zoom, Pan, Select, Link

Scale of Literary Annotations?

St. Augustine: 31, 817

Deep Zoom Pyramid

Aggregating Tracks of Commentary

"The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato" --Alfred North Whitehead

Taking part in “The Great Conversation”

aka, “Reading with the Stars”

“Highbrow?”

Highlight Browser

High Level Overview

Grand Literary Ambitions

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