Annotation Project Group Creation

Annotation projects often involve more than one annotator.

Project Group instances allow the creation and management of a group of annotation projects from one screen.

Annotation Project Group Creation

Creating a Project Group is similar to regular Annotation Project Creation, but differs in a few key ways.

They can be used to group existing projects together, or to create a set of Annotation Projects.

Key Differences from Regular Project Creation

When completing a Project Group form, Create Associated Projects is a key parameter:

Create Associated Projects: True

If checked will create an Annotation Project for each Annotator selected in the list. All selected Admins will be included as ‘annotators’ on each Project created. This saves the current steps of creating a ‘template’ projec then cloning, renaming and re-permissioning each project which happens with regular project creation for multiple annotators. Each Project will be called - .

Create Associated Projects: False

If False the only important parameters will be ProjectGroup Name and description. All other parameters will be ignored. The expectation here is that the projects that are to be grouped already exist, and each Project will be added to the new Project Group manually.

Best Practise

Project Groups provide a convenience method for the creating managing grorups of Annotation Projects. Changes such as CUI filters, and projec settings changed once in the group will flow down into the associated Annotation Projects.

Using Annotation Project Groups

Regular, non-admin Users of MedCATTrainer, i.e. regular annotators, will not see the option to view Project Groups.

Admin users will see an action bar as shown: Project Groups Available

Selecting this view will show all available Project Groups to the logged in user. Project Groups view

Selecting a group now opens a lightbox with the list of projects in this group: Project Group Contents

Other Benefits of Project Groups

Further enhancements will allow metric further comparisson between projects in a group, gamification, standard annotation metric reporting (e.g. IIA / Cohen’s Kappa statistics etc.)