TUFIS Mihnéa
Supervision : Jean-Gabriel GANASCIA
A characterisation of comics and sequential art for supporting the evolution of digital formats for comics - A crowdsourcing approach
We address the difficulty of creating a digitised corpus by using a crowdsourced approach for annotating comic books. The resulting XML-based encodings assist researchers, publishers and collection curators equally. To achieve our data collection goal, we develop an online crowdsourcing engine for annotating comics. The tasks are designed to mirror the page reading experience, with participants asked to identify and annotate structural (panel layout, splash pages, meta-panels) and content (characters, places, events, onomatopoeia) elements of comic books.
Our approach provides Digital Humanities (DH) scholars with a (currently missing) structured, annotated corpus; this enables and accelerates research related to comics and sequential art theory.
Curators and collectors of physical or online comics collections are provided with a structured content which could enable the creation of artefacts such as comic books dictionaries, search indices and dictionaries of onomatopoeia.
From a publishing perspective, current standards for digital comics are taking care exclusively of the presentation layer (i.e. rendering a publication on the screen of a device). But the artistic nature of comics and the great potential digital comics have already showcased allow us to go beyond simple content presentation. To this respect we present our contributions with enhancements to current semantic (CBML) and presentation (EPUB) open standards that will allow publishers and digital comics authors to create an improved reading experience.
Defence : 04/20/2017
Jury members :
Mme Sihem AMER-YAHIA, Directrice de Recherche CNRS au Laboratoire d'Informatique de Grenoble [Rapporteur]
Mme Karell BERTET, Maître de conférences - HDR à l'Université de la Rochelle [Rapporteur]
M. Jean-Gabriel GANASCIA, Professeur à l'Université Pierre et Marie Curie
Mme Marie-Jeanne LESOT, Maître de conférences - HDR à l'Université Pierre et Marie Curie
M. Jochen LAUBROCK, Head of Junior Research Group à l'Université de Potsdam, Allemagne
M. Guillaume RASCHIA, Maître de conférences - HDR à l'Université de Nantes
2014-2019 Publications
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2019
- M. Tufis, J.‑G. Ganascia : “Crowdsourcing Comics Annotations”, chapter in Empirical Comics ResearchDigital, Multimodal, and Cognitive Methods, Routledge Advances in Comics Studies, (Routledge), (ISBN: 9781138737440) (2019)
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2017
- M. Tufis : “A characterisation of comics and sequential art for supporting the evolution of digital formats for comics - A crowdsourcing approach”, thesis, phd defence 04/20/2017, supervision Ganascia, Jean-Gabriel (2017)
- M. Tufis, J.‑G. Ganascia : “Crowdsourcing annotations for comics corpora”, (2017)
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2016
- M. Tufis, J.‑G. Ganascia : “Adding semantics to comics using a crowdsourcing approach”, (2016)
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2015
- A. Abi Haidar, M. Tufis, J.‑G. Ganascia : “From Inter-Annotation to Intra-Publication Inconsistency”, chapter in Inconsistency Robustness, vol. 52, Studies in Logic, pp. 614, (College Publications), (ISBN: 978-1-84890-159-9) (2015)
- M. Tufis, J.‑G. Ganascia : “Grafting norms onto the BDI agent model”, chapter in A Construction Manual For Robots' Ethical Systems, Cognitive Technologies, pp. 119-133, (Springer), (ISBN: 978-3-319-21548-8) (2015)
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2014
- A. Abi Haidar, M. Tufis, J.‑G. Ganascia : “From Inter-Annotation to Intra-Publication Inconsistency.”, Inconsistency Robustness 2014, Stanford, United States (2014)
- M. Tufis, J.‑G. Ganascia : “A Normative Extension for the BDI Agent Model”, CLAWAR 2014 – Proceedings of the Seventeenth International Conference on Climbing and Walking Robots and the Support Technologies for Mobile Machines, Poznan, Poland, pp. 691-702 (2014)