Case study Marginalia

Five-step walkthrough

Walkthrough: Marginalia

Five screenshots in the order I would talk through them. Each step names what to look at, and every chip and Prev/Next link is a real URL fragment.

Marginalia Ask page: the Sentence-BERT paper on the left; the right column carries the third-party model disclosure, the Choose a PDF drop zone, the 24-hour deletion notice, the question field and a three-claim recorded answer.

Step 1 of 5

The ask page names the model

The landing page sets the seeded Sentence-BERT paper beside a right column with the third-party model disclosure, the Choose a PDF drop zone and the 24-hour deletion notice. The question field sits beneath them, above a three-claim recorded answer with its source rows.

Page 1 of the Sentence-BERT paper with citation 1 selected: the quoted sentence is marked in the page text with a margin marker, the matching source row is selected, and three claims sit in the answer pane.

Step 2 of 5

Citation 1 resolves on page 1

Selecting claim 1 opens page 1 of the Sentence-BERT paper and marks the quoted sentence in the page text with a margin marker. The same quote appears in the selected source row, so the answer pane and the page agree.

Visitor upload panel: northwind-field-guide.pdf with the stage line reading Parsing the PDF, beneath the disclosure, the drop zone and the 25 MB and 80-page limits.

Step 3 of 5

The stage line names the parse

A visitor drops northwind-field-guide.pdf into the upload panel, and the stage line on the page reads Parsing the PDF. The disclosure above the drop zone names the third-party model, the 25 MB upload cap and the 80-page limit, and the notice says the file is deleted after 24 hours.

The uploaded Northwind Observatory field guide open on page 4: the Alder-9 recalibration sentence is highlighted with margin marker 1, and the matching source row names the uploaded file.

Step 4 of 5

The visitor's page answers the question

The uploaded field guide opens on page 4 with the Alder-9 recalibration sentence highlighted and margin marker 1 beside it. The source row names northwind-field-guide.pdf, so the citation resolves against the visitor's own document.

Page 1 of the Sentence-BERT paper with citation 1 selected: the quoted sentence is marked in the page text with a margin marker, the matching source row is selected, and three claims sit in the answer pane.

Step 5 of 5

Each claim carries its source

The answer pane lists three claims, and each one lists the page and the start of the quote it matched. The selected row is the one whose quote is marked in the page text on the left.

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