Recogito Tutorial: Annotating Relations

As well as marking entities, Recogito also enables you to annotate relations between them: in other words, you can connect two annotations that you have previously created, and describe the relation between them. To do this you need to switch your annotation mode. Until now, we have been using the “normal” annotation mode, which is your default setting. By clicking on “relations”, you will enter the annotating mode for connecting your annotations. Simply click on the first annotated entity that you are interested in, and then drag the pointer until you reach the second one. A dotted line now connects them and a small text field appears, into which you can describe the relationship that you have just drawn according to your typology.

The relations are “directional”, which is indicated by a small arrow in the connecting line. In some cases this is irrelevant, as, for example, if you are expressing the relation “SiblingOf” between entities “Apollo” and “Artemis”. But it becomes crucial in the case of hierarchical relationships such as “MotherOf” that might link the entities “Leto” with the entities “Apollo” and “Artemis”. This second example also tell us that each entity can have multiple relationships.

This tool was designed with Network visualisations in mind. We will discuss this application when talking about Download Options.

This feature is only available for text documents.