GATE Teamware: Collaborative Annotation Factories

Teamware is a web-based management platform for collaborative annotation & curation. It is a cost-effective environment for annotation and curation projects, enabling you to harness a broadly distributed workforce and monitor progress & results remotely in real time. It’s also very easy to use. A new project can be up and running in less than five minutes. (As far as we know, there is nothing else like it in this field.)

GATE Teamware delivers a multi-function user interface over the Internet for viewing, adding and editing text annotations. The web-based management interface allows for project set-up, tracking, and management:

• Loading document collections (a "corpus” or “corpora”)
• Creating re-usable project templates
• Initiating projects based on templates
• Assigning project roles to specific users
• Monitoring progress and various project statistics in real time
• Reporting of project status, annotator activity and statistics
• Applying GATE-based processing routines (automatic annotations or post-annotation processing)

Where to get it? Coming soon at the IR facility.

In a hurry? Contact the GATE team.

For a more detailed introduction to Teamware, see this page.

Below is an image of the welcome screen:

The next version, Teamware 1.2, will support more features:

• Accept custom processing packages created in GATE Developer as plug-ins to a project for pre- and post-processing
• Installation bundle for deployment at a client location
• Upgraded queue management
• Upgraded annotator and curator interfaces
• Integrated with GATE Wiki for access to project instructions