eMargin

Developed by the Research and Development Unit for English Studies at Birmingham City University, eMargin is an online collaborative annotation tool that lets you highlight, colour-code, write notes and assign tags to individual words or passages of a text. These annotations can be shared amongst groups, generating discussions and allowing analyses and interpretations to be combined.

The initial aim of the eMargin project was to bridge the gap between two distinct approaches to textual analysis: the top-down, quantitative approach of corpus linguistics and the fine-grained, introspective approach of literary close reading in a classroom context. Our solution, is a web-based annotation tool which, by moving the annotation process online, enables collaboration and discussion across multiple locations in both synchronous and asynchronous modes.

eMargin was developed through two Jisc grants. See emargin.bcu.ac.uk for more information.