User:Simon/Annotation typologies

Typologies identified from a previous project, which explored "marks of use" in books from a section of the State Library of Victoria.

http://simonbrowne.biz/projects/from-the-books-slv-rbrr-000-099/

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

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.