User talk:Simon/Glossing

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A glossed manuscript of a late-thirteenth-century Latin translation of a medical work by Hippocrates

08.05.19 Notes on use of annotations

Main question: How can annotation be useful to us, and a third party?

Possible ways

Keep text and annotations together

  • scan and overlay transparencies (more like a graphical representation but perhaps not very readable)
  • write, re-write, cut and paste the annotations in a bigger paper all together
  • use the annotation bot (a digital tool)(it would be cool if you could underline, etc - yes! including graphic elements)
  • if digital, create the possibility to turn on and off the annotations to keep the original text
  • bind the pages into books and make a bootleg library with them

Separate text and annotations (deconstruction / structure analysis)

  • only underlined text (in many ways: lines, circles, waves...)
  • list of questions, tags, notes + composition and mapping of them (different mapping techniques)
  • historical timeline
  • only drawings?
  • free graphical interpretation

Computer driven annotation

  • scrape the text (words processing)
  • pattern recognition
  • delete all articles and implicit elements

Combine the above possibilities

  • overlay of analog annotations to represent "heat patterns" (parts of the text with lots of/little engagement), as well as a digital version that is more legible

HOW DO I KNOW WHAT I AM READING? We are discussing form how do we talk about content?
How do you make the content readable for others?
How do you communicate what you're interpreting?