Planning your Recogito exercise: tags, annotations, visualisations…

[gabrielbodard]

1. Create a free account on the Recogito online platform
2. Click on this link to access a collection of inscriptions found near the Theatre of Dionysos in Athens. You will notice that the document is made of a number of separate files, each of them an inscription.
3. Clone the document in your personal workspace (instructions will be given during the seminar)
4. Have a preliminary look at the texts, and then decide how do you want to annotate them. What aspects of these texts might be interesting to highlight? What tags would be useful to employ? What can the map-based visualisation tell us? Can the use of the relationships annotations bring different insights? And, above all, does the use of this tool help you to formulate research questions?
5. Feel free to experiment with the different visualisation modes. Try visualising by tags and by part. Do these changes suggest new questions?

[Ghilaevansky]

In the Theatre of Dionysos in Athens document, I annotated Thebes, by noting that it is an extinct city. I thought was an important point to annotate. I linked it to a map which I think is helpful to readers. I also annotated Philokles because I thought it was crucial to note a bit about who he was. I also did this for Euboulides, a Greek philosopher.

Below is the link to my Recogito account: https://recogito.pelagios.org/ghila2022

[molmay]

I annotated the inscription honouring a competition director. Because this text features more people than places I found the ability to annotate relationships really useful - at a first glance I found it difficult to focus on the various names and positions to understand how everybody related to each other and the happenings, so I found it really useful to firstly categorise all of the sons and their fathers to visualise who is actually performing the actions. I can imagine this would be really useful to me personally if I were looking at a source or text with a complex web of familial relations as I find it really helpful to visually delineate relationships. I then moved on to tagging the various positions individuals held. Something I really liked about this system was the fact that I could tag different words as the same entrant - for example the 'competition director' and 'Charis' are the same individual within the source so it was nice to be able to visualise that.

Here is my link to this document: https://recogito.pelagios.org/document/ncz6dbwcjrh5rf

[katie-goodman]

I’ve had a go at annotating the inscription honouring the priests and religious officials from the Theatre of Dionysus: https://recogito.pelagios.org/document/tni5gkw4v8lytw

Given the many names mentioned, I was particularly grateful for the ability to annotate relationships, namely priest-deity, but also father-son. I have also tagged the various positions each named person held (priest, son, etc.). Though this text is focussed primarily on individuals, I was able to annotate the places the named priests and religious officials came from, when this information was available.

[ellie919]

I had a go at annotating the nurse's speech from Seneca's Medea. the relational elements helped to show Medea's control over the play. the geodata allowed me to visualise how far she travels to collect her magical ingredients. this could be useful for demonstrating roman attitudes towards magic. The play also includes Seneca's comments on the consequences of the Roman Empire (for Rome), using the backstory of the Argonautica and visualising the places Medea refers to could illuminate this topic.

https://recogito.pelagios.org/document/2fhayekosfajd6