Knowledge in action

Personal Beginnings

Biyi

Start to think differently about annotation, different forms of existences

how annotation is from the people can make categorization. in some libraries, people pull books out and put them back on a big stack these stacks of books placed together can be a form of annotation too. their interests are placed there, some links are formed that weren't there before You make annotations when you put a particular book with some neighbours on a library shelf ( Swiss robot library) how can annotation can reveal community, person, or anecdote.

Giving Dignity to Annotations

Inspired by discussion of a proposal by Tancre to follow git-workflow. A library that people can fork. This would work with epub. A platform/library for annotations. Structure of epub could somehow work within git. The desire for annotation: accrediting value to less authorized researchers/users. There are already a lot of annotation ideas/tools around (ref. Stiegler article, Toward a Geography of Knowledge https://westernchiasma.files.wordpress.com/2015/03/annotation-navigation-electronic-editions.pdf). Thinking about it as a way to practice other ways of producing knowledge. Questions: - How does annotation re-organise or re-confirm conventional modes of knowledge production? - What about the authorship of annotation? - How to curate annotations? Should there be a 'curator'-role invented? today's task, read Stiegler text on annotation and present to group. (Can also develop discussion from this idea during Steve's class)  - related to Bo's thoughts on digital labor acknowledgement. This may be a little far from the context we are situated now but, for example, decent digital labor accreditation is not offered and remained in shadows for jobs such as content reviewer and data set annotators. Their labor can be considered as works of annotations that's had not brought to light. 

Outline

First Outline

Biyi

Aim: To facilitate a field for collective action and thinking, therefore challenging singular top-down direction in knowledge production [in particular in media, news, publishing industry]. As space and tools is given to annotation, I want to explore "curatability" of annotation, how can annotation be curated? Curated annotation is an archive, challenging authority of canonized, scholastic works. How? [In workshops of annotation, tools are given to experiment. Annotators are encouraged to gather and discuss opinions towards main content. Make a toolkit/framework for curating annotations. ]

Workshop Title: Annotation Curation / Curating Pirate Library - Pirate Librarians, Diversifying Librarians

Theme: Reorganizing Knowledge: Curating pirate libraries [Pirate Librarian], curating annotations [Annotation Librarian]. I use librarian to refer to roles of organizing, taking care of, distributing, sharing, communicating knowledge. Who is the librarian in context of online shadow libraries? On Library Genesis, the main interface provides a search field to look for books. It is unlinke the conventional library, where physical collections placed according to categories provides an overview of thematic relationship between books. On the other hand, Monoskop provides background insights to its collections, stored in Wiki format. Reader can browse around interested areas on the Wiki, gain an insight on specific knowledge fields and choose corresponding literature. This role of librarian is not a role that one individual is occupied with, but rather,

Aim: As the audience become familiarized with know-hows of pirate library and annotation, I want to invite them to think and act further on how are pirate library and annotation tools capable of making structural changes to knowledge production? Via pirate libraries and collective annotation tools, can knowledge production happen on peer to peer basis, overcoming top-down paradigms of knowledge access barriers? By establishing more accessible, decentralized spaces and communities, the production of knowledge is being redefined by participating readers, annotators, collectors.

New Knowledge: Arena book stacks

Role of Annotation: Via collective annotation, people can discuss and share thoughts together. Annotation curation can give a active, well structured place or organizing thoughts coming from readers who do not hold authorship in the conventional sense. In this activity, readers are encouraged to shift their attention from reading the author to reading their peers. Make a better document for you - Make a better document for US.

references of from Joca and Tash's project from the past speical issue on Librarianship. Self librarianship - there is Amazon these days, why need librarians? Algorithmic librarianship, how is work being reformed ? redistributed? Are amazon reviewers librarians? Self-responsibilizaiton

Comment: How will people interface to your project?