Presentation topic: https://github.com/SuLab/YPet

[x0xMaximus]

I'd be happy to discuss this recent project that has been developed at The Scripps Research Institute for biocuration efforts. It's a library built in Marionette to rapidly annotate paragraphs of text on websites. The project aims to rethink HTML text annotation by:

• Limit the possibility for damaged annotations, individual letters are not desired.
• Allow rapid span highlighting to prevent broken single-word annotations.
• Don't enforce any DOM requirements, allow native functionality on any paragraph tag to respect page resizing or CSS styles.
• Allow rapid classification of annotation types without right mouse clicks.

for the goal of making the annotation process as fast and simple as possible. An online demo is available to play with / evaluate.

The talk would cover other library approaches, logic, triggered events, UX decisions that were made to have it function in the current way. It will assume a basic knowledge of Backbone and Marionette (though can easily be adjusted). Could run at short as 15min or as long as an 1hr (flexible). Could be presented tomorrow or in a few months (flexible). Additionally, I'd like to open the floor to a discussion around text annotation on the web, it's a very challenging problem and would love to hear crowd criticism / feedback regarding the task.

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[treyhunner]

I would be interested in seeing this, probably in a shorter format (just my preference).

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