There will be two different entry points to the SoSOL environment:

From within Perseus, Athenaeus’ Deipnosophistae and Plutarch’s Theseus and Alexander will contain Edit/Annotate links in the sidebar:

The Edit/Annotate link will you bring you directly into the Edit/Annotate screen for the selected passage in the SoSOL interface (after prompting you to login).

Note: these links will currently only be enabled for the hackathon but in the meantime, you can see the effect by using the following link from Athenaeus 1.2:
http://sosol.perseus.tufts.edu/sosol/cts_publications/create_from_linked_urn/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0008.tlg001.perseus-grc1:1.2?src=http://data.perseus.org/citations&collection=perseus

Alternatively, you can go directly to the SoSOL interface at http://sosol.perseus.tufts.edu/sosol and, after logging in, select the text from the home screen:

Select the desired text, and then click ‘Emend’.  From the Overview screen, click the ‘Select Passage’ link:

On the Edit Passage screen, enter the passage on which you want to work:

Click ‘Retrieve’ and you will now be on the Edit/Annotate screen. This is the same point to which the link from Perseus will bring you:

Click ‘Annotate’. If you already have one or more annotations for that passage, you will be prompted to either append a new one or review the ones you have already:

Click ‘Review’ to see your existing annotations for the passage, or click Append to add a new one. If you didn’t have any annotations for the passage yet, you will not see this screen and instead be brought directly to the Edit/Append interface:

At this point, you can proceed to create or edit your annotation.

Working with the Annotation Target

The URI input box for the annotation target will be pre-populated with the URI for your selected passage. If you want to reference the entire passage, you don’t need to do anything further for this URI.

If you want to specify one or more more specific passages from within the passage, click and drag your mouse in the text box to highlight the word or words you want. This will update the URI for the annotation target to include the selected words.

If you want to select multiple smaller passages from within the passage to serve as the target of the annotation (e.g. for broken phrases, etc.), click the ‘Add’ button below to the URI input box. It will add another target uri input box below the first.  Select the new range of text with your mouse, and you will see that it updates  the new annotation target URI input box.

Clicking in any of the target URI input boxes should cause the text corresponding to that URI to be highlighted in bold in the passage below.  Click the ‘Remove’ button below a URI if you no longer want to include it in your annotation.

Select the title for the annotation from the dropdown (choices for the hackathon are ‘isQuotationOf’, ‘isSpokenBy’,’isReferenceToPerson’ and ‘isReferenceToPlace’).

Working with the Annotation Resource

You need to supply a URI to a resource which represents the body of the annotation.

Possible sources for URIs include:

1. For people: VIAF.org (e.g. http://viaf.org/viaf/34348174) and Perseus’ Smith’s Biography URIs (e.g. http://data.perseus.org/people/smith:alexander-1)
2. For places: Pleiades URIs (e.g. http://pleiades.stoa.org/places/540582)
3. For texts: the interface can guide you through creating and refining CTS-enabled citation URIs for selected texts:
1. Use the selection boxes to select passages from Homer or Herodotus texts from the Perseus repository.
2. After entering the passage or passage range for one of these texts, click on ‘Request Resource’ to populate the form with the URI for the passage and to retrieve the text from the repository.
3. To select a more specific passage from within the text, click and drag with your mouse to highlight the word or words.  When you release your mouse button, the CTS URN in the annotation resource URI will be  automatically updated to include the selected words.

When you are satisfied with your selection(s), submit the form by clicking the ‘Save’ button at the bottom of the page.

The annotation is saved to your repository and you are brought to the Preview display.

When you are done creating annotations for a text, you can return to the overview screen for the text, and then follow the instructions to submit your work for review by the board. Note however, that until the annotations are approved and added to the repository, you will not be able to work further on that text, unless you withdraw it from review.

An alternative annotation workflow is available for annotations which have many-to-many relationships between tokens in the two linked passages.  For these, you can use the Alpheios Alignment editor to match up the tokens in each by clicking on the Align in Alpheios link at the bottom right of the screen.

This will load the text in the Alpheios Alignment Editor in a new browser window/tab. The URIs for the passages will be included as comments in the XML produced by the alignment editor. (See this screencast for instructions on using the Alpheios Alignment editor.)

We don’t yet have the ability to  put the results of the Alpheios editor back into SoSOL, so for the moment you will have to save these locally to your computer by using the Export XML button, and then submitting the XML via email.