Scholarly Annotation of a Poetry Reading

Use Case

Scholars may wish to use annotations to indicate aspects of the performance of a particular poem.

For a performance of a published text, transcribing the performance is of little use to the researcher annotating the performance. Rather, the annotations serve as commentary on the performance itself.

A researcher might want to annotate the following types of information:

  • structural information (introduction, title, stanzas)
  • points where the performer takes a breath
  • repeated or emphasized phrases

Implementation notes

This implementation builds off of the audio example, but adds Web Annotations. We show annotation targeting using a simplified Media Fragment #t=702.0,705.0 appended to the canvas URL.

If you are targeting a single point, you should use a point selector. The Begin playback at a specific point - Time-based media recipe demonstrates that approach.

Because the annotations are pointing out features of the audio, rather than transcriptions, the motivation for each annotation is commenting not supplementing. If the annotations were transcriptions, their motivation would be supplementing.

Example

A manifest for a poetry reading by Canadian poet Daphne Marlatt in 2018 that includes an annotation describing environmental noise. The recording is 707 seconds long.

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