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
500px ANNOTATION
500px ASTERISK
500px BOOK PRICE
500px BOOKMARK
500px CIRCLED TEXT
500px CREASED PAGE
500px CROSS
DEAD ANT
500px DOG-EAR
500px ERASER RUBBING
500px ERRATA
500px FINGERPRINT
500px FOLD
500px HANDWRITTEN LETTER
500px INK BLOT
500px LIBRARY DOCUMENT
500px LIFTED PRINT
500px LINE
500px LOOSE PAGE
500px NOTEPAPER BOOKMARK
500px NOTES
500px PAGES REMOVED
500px POST-IT NOTE
500px RECEIPT BOOKMARK
500px REPLACED IMAGE
500px SCUFF
500px SMUDGE
500px SQUIGGLE
500px STAIN
500px STRIKETHROUGH
500px TICK
500px TORN PAGE
500px TORN PAPER BOOKMARK
500px UNDERLINING
500px WARPED PAGE
500px WEAR AND TEAR
500px 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.