AbsORB Annotation Guidelines and Metadata Corpus - English - January 2024

Online book reviews posted on social media platforms are a relatively new form of reader testimonials that can be of use to researchers from different disciplines to investigate reading experience and evaluation, as well as social discourse about reading. In this project we developed an approach for annotating online book reviews using the Story World Absorption Scale (SWAS, Kuijpers et al., 2014) - a self-report instrument developed in the field of empirical literary studies - as the foundation for a tag set that targets mentions of absorption during reading by reviewers. On this page you can find the English-language annotation guidelines we developed for this project, as well as the English-language Metadata corpus of online book reviews. Part of the reason for conducting this annotation work was to validate the SWAS, and a reconceptualization of Story World Absorption is discussed in the paper \"Validating the Story World Absorption Scale through annotation of online book reviews\" in the Journal of Cultural Analytics. Updated versions of the annotation guidelines will be posted on Open Science Framework under this link: https://osf.io/kr4v6/发布于社交媒体平台的在线图书评论，是一种相对新兴的读者评价形式，可为不同学科的研究者探究阅读体验与评价、开展围绕阅读的社会话语研究提供支撑。本项目开发了一套在线图书评论标注方法，以故事世界沉浸量表（Story World Absorption Scale，SWAS，Kuijpers等，2014）为基础构建标签集——该量表是经验主义文学研究领域开发的自报告工具，旨在捕捉评论者在阅读过程中提及的沉浸感相关表述。本页面可获取本项目开发的英文标注指南，以及在线图书评论的英文元数据语料库。开展本次标注工作的部分目的在于验证SWAS的有效性，相关论文《通过在线图书评论标注验证故事世界沉浸量表》发表于《文化分析期刊》（Journal of Cultural Analytics），文中对故事世界沉浸的概念进行了重新阐释。标注指南的更新版本将发布于开放科学框架（Open Science Framework，OSF），相关链接为：https://osf.io/kr4v6/