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08_05_2019 Exploring Annotation possibilities

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?

22_05_2019 Developing future workshop around annotation

Aim

This series of workshops aims make to the operations of the shadow library visible. We approach this through a series of methods of annotation which investigate its structure. We use methods which usually involve modes of encryption and encoding (watermarking &c). We aim to make visible the processes of labour, production and distribution which are usefully rendered invisible. These methods provide modes of annotation. We will use a particular collection of texts. The aim is to set up a system which can be applied on a local level and later be extended.

refining the possibilities discussed during last session

what technologies of annotation could be developed?

• Analog and digital annotation 
• Multimedia annotation in new platforms, has annotating Music, Video, Lyrics
• Watermarking as a form of annotating authorship, how turning it around and delete the watermarks. Rather than being proprietorial, how to twist this. Use watermarking to create the ability to define provenance.
• Merge multiple annotations of the same content on a single place https://www.iri.centrepompidou.fr/outils/lignes-de-temps-2/?lang=en_us
• https://web.hypothes.is/
• The plurality of annotation systems, annotation through different medium, that there is not perfect system.
• Metadata [annotations in files that are apparently invisible, for the computer to read, such as SISO]
• Social network for multiple annotations / or collectively indexing [on reddit, people annotate threads by voting and downvoting; on douban (Chinese semi-social media platform on books and media, users can annotate reading remarks.] http://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/User:Tancre/Special_Issue_9/About_categories,_tags,_keywords,_metadata_and_so_on...] 
• Levels of annotation/ hierarchies?establish rules to define the relevance of annotations. Annotation as thermometer for relevance
• Recording verbal annotations coming from collective reading/watching/listening: transcribe discussions

b) consider the methods you have used to date (consider the advantages and limitations, {vis a vis what you want from this project})

• Cataloguing, indexing (such as the library system in rietveld academy, Evernote)
• Scanning, tracing, replicating, identifying, naming