3.6.1 Resume or Restart Adjudication

Adjudication work is persisted to the project’s adjudication/ folder, so it survives closing and reopening eHOST. When you switch to Adjudication Mode, eHOST checks that folder for .knowtator.xml files.

No previous adjudication found

The normal adjudication setup dialog opens (see 3.6 Adjudication Mode).

Previous adjudication found

A dialog offers three options:

Option	Result
Yes, please	Resume the previous adjudication. Annotations already marked as matched stay resolved; everything else is re-analyzed so you continue where you left off.
No, Start a new adjudication	Discard the previous adjudication and start over (a warning dialog is shown first).
Cancel	Return to annotation mode without changing anything.

User clicks "Adjudication Mode"
    |
    +- No existing adjudication files -> open adjudication setup dialog
    |
    +- Existing adjudication files found
        |
        +- "Yes, please"    -> resume previous adjudication
        +- "Cancel"         -> return to annotation mode
        +- "No, Start new"  -> WARNING DIALOG
                                |
                                +- "Yes" -> clear adjudication data + open setup dialog
                                +- "No"  -> return to annotation mode

Warning before starting a new adjudication

Because starting over throws away potentially hours of work, choosing No, Start a new adjudication shows a confirmation warning stating that:

• all previously adjudicated annotations will be erased, and
• the annotators’ original annotations are not affected.

Only after you confirm does eHOST clear the in-memory adjudication data and delete the .knowtator.xml files in the project’s adjudication/ folder. Declining the warning returns you to annotation mode with all data intact.

Notes

• Detection is purely file based: if adjudication/*.knowtator.xml exists, adjudication is considered ongoing. No separate marker file or metadata block is consulted, and the annotations in saved/ stay free of adjudication bookkeeping — only the files in the adjudication/ folder record a per-annotation adjudication status (see 3.6.2 Adjudication Data Storage).
• When resuming, the adjudication settings (annotators, classes) are reconstructed from the annotations themselves — or read from the settings block that files written by older versions still carry — so a resumed session works even if eHOST was restarted or the project was moved.
• Older projects whose adjudication files were written by earlier eHOST versions are upgraded automatically on load; see 3.6.2 Adjudication Data Storage.