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traces of book use in from the books

Typologies of traces of use identified from a previous project called From the Books: SLV RBRR 000-099, which explored books from the 000-099 section of the Redmond Barry Reading Room in the State Library of Victoria.

ACCIDENTAL DOG-EAR
ANNOTATION
ASTERISK
BOOK PRICE
BOOKMARK
CIRCLED TEXT
CREASED PAGE
CROSS
DEAD ANT
DOG-EAR
ERASER RUBBING
ERRATA
FINGERPRINT
FOLD
HANDWRITTEN LETTER
INK BLOT
LIBRARY DOCUMENT
LIFTED PRINT
LINE
LOOSE PAGE
NOTEPAPER BOOKMARK
NOTES
PAGES REMOVED
POST-IT NOTE
RECEIPT BOOKMARK
REPLACED IMAGE
SCUFF
SMUDGE
SQUIGGLE
STAIN
STRIKETHROUGH
TICK
TORN PAGE
TORN PAPER BOOKMARK
UNDERLINING
WARPED PAGE
WEAR AND TEAR

These formed a loose classification system that indexed these books not by bibliographic reference, but by the frequency of occurrence, taking a "bag of words" approach. Problems that arose were linguistic - it was difficult assigning a word to an example as this already had some assumption of intention (e.g. a doodle as an intentional drawing vs squiggle as unintentional drawing).

thoughts and reflections

My approach was one of identification based on nouns, which presented problems in describing the traces we found and the possible intention (or lack of intention) in their making. To what extent could the noun communicate what had happened? Nouns point towards things affected by actions. In a sense, to name something is to own it, and things become property much more easily than actions.

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-Typologies identified from a previous project, which explored "marks of use" in books from a section of the State Library of Victoria.
+==traces of book use in ''from the books''==
+Typologies of traces of use identified from a previous project called ''From the Books: SLV RBRR 000-099'', which explored books from the 000-099 section of the Redmond Barry Reading Room in the State Library of Victoria.
-http://simonbrowne.biz/projects/from-the-books-slv-rbrr-000-099/
+* ACCIDENTAL DOG-EAR
+* ANNOTATION
-ACCIDENTAL DOG-EAR *
+* ASTERISK
-ANNOTATION *
+* BOOK PRICE
-ASTERISK *
+* BOOKMARK
-BOOK PRICE *
+* CIRCLED TEXT
-BOOKMARK *
+* CREASED PAGE
-CIRCLED TEXT *
+* CROSS
-CREASED PAGE *
+* DEAD ANT
-CROSS *
+* DOG-EAR
-DEAD ANT *
+* ERASER RUBBING
-DOG-EAR *
+* ERRATA
-ERASER RUBBING *
+* FINGERPRINT
-ERRATA *
+* FOLD
-FINGERPRINT *
+* HANDWRITTEN LETTER
-FOLD *
+* INK BLOT
-HANDWRITTEN LETTER *
+* LIBRARY DOCUMENT
-INK BLOT *
+* LIFTED PRINT
-LIBRARY DOCUMENT *
+* LINE
-LIFTED PRINT *
+* LOOSE PAGE
-LINE *
+* NOTEPAPER BOOKMARK
-LOOSE PAGE *
+* NOTES
-NOTEPAPER BOOKMARK *
+* PAGES REMOVED
-NOTES *
+* POST-IT NOTE
-PAGES REMOVED *
+* RECEIPT BOOKMARK
-POST-IT NOTE *
+* REPLACED IMAGE
-RECEIPT BOOKMARK *
+* SCUFF
-REPLACED IMAGE *
+* SMUDGE
-SCUFF *
+* SQUIGGLE
-SMUDGE *
+* STAIN
-SQUIGGLE *
+* STRIKETHROUGH
-STAIN *
+* TICK
-STRIKETHROUGH *
+* TORN PAGE
-TICK *
+* TORN PAPER BOOKMARK
-TORN PAGE *
+* UNDERLINING
-TORN PAPER BOOKMARK *
+* WARPED PAGE
-UNDERLINING *
+* WEAR AND TEAR<br>
-WARPED PAGE *
-WEAR AND TEAR<br>
 These formed a loose classification system that indexed these books not by bibliographic reference, but by the frequency of occurrence, taking a "bag of words" approach.
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 ==thoughts and reflections==
-Whereas my previous approach was one of identification based on nouns, which presented problems. In a sense, to name something is to own it. Things become property much more easily than actions. Perhaps a different approach of identifying actions may be more open and associative than a noun-based classification scheme.
+My approach was one of identification based on nouns, which presented problems in describing the traces we found and the possible intention (or lack of intention) in their making. To what extent could the noun communicate what had happened? Nouns point towards things affected by actions. In a sense, to name something is to own it, and things become property much more easily than actions.