new tool for Collaborative Commentary
Brian Macwhinney
Dear FluencyBank,
NEW TOOL! We are excited to launch the Collaborative Commentary (CC) system at https://talkbank.org/CC/ . This new system, developed by John Kowalski, allows users and groups to work collaboratively to add codes and comments directly to TalkBank transcripts linked to media. It has many potential uses in classroom teaching, clinical training, and research group analyses.
The manual – https://sla.talkbank.org/CCmanual/ -- has step-by-step instructions about how to create accounts, groups, coding tags, and comments, and how to search by codes, users, or transcripts.
The tutorial screencast page – https://talkbank.org/screencasts/ -- (see section entitled Collaborative Commentary) has an Overview video that provides examples of what you can do with CC. Other short videos in that section show how to do those functions in more detail.
Conference presentation -- these slides from a 2022 Clinical Aphasiology Conference presentation describe the tool and some of its applications.
Username and Password Information
If you’re creating a CC group for the clinical databases (e.g., AphasiaBank), you will need to provide group members (e.g., students, research staff) with access information for the password-protected materials. Before doing so, point them to the TalkBank Code of Ethics -- https://talkbank.org/share/ethics.html. We recommend that the group manager require that students and research staff sign an agreement stating that they will abide by the basic rules and, specifically, that they will not reuse or recirculate materials or share access information with others.
Questions/Comments
Feel free to email Davida -- fr...@andrew.cmu.edu – with questions as well as feedback and ideas for continued development of this new tool.
Best,
John Kowalski, Davida Fromm, and Brian MacWhinney