User:Simon/Reading, Writing & Research Methodologies SI9

IFL introductions

Profiling shadow libraries: aaaaarg.fail, ubuweb & Project Gutenberg

Annotations 08.05.19

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?

Outlining content of workshops 22.05.19

a) what purpose does annotation serve (in your case)?

Annotations in the form of accumulative traces of reader's interactions with texts underline the sociability of libraries - not just collections of knowledge but discourse around them; [How?] dispels notions of the singular, authority and property in favour of collectivity and plurality and highlights the social construction of knowledge

b) what does it do for the reader (in your case)?

Simon: Annotation affirms the idea that a text is part of a discourse - not in isolation from other texts/writers - and that knowledge is socially constructed. Annotation is a way for a reader to become visibile to others and part of this discourse. It avoids authorship, and singular notions of knowledge production.

c) what does it do for the annotators (in your case)?

Simon: In my case, the annotators are the readers. Annotation exists as an action in response to the text, or to existing annotations. It can be idiosyncratic, and readable only to the annotator, therefore revealing (some) elements of how that particular person interprets the text. But, more often there are unspoken conventions to the types of annotations typically used, e.g. underlining, highlighting, circling, asterisks, dots etc. These can be defined by the technical limitations of the technology used, or linguistic (and typographic) conventions. This commonality begins to create a shared vocabulary through which readers read each other's responses to texts (here "read" can mean interpret, or access, like a file).

YOUR PROJECT 4) look at your project descriptions and use them as a basis to make a plan a) define your aim [see above] b) what needs to be done? c) make a timetable d) what needs to be developed further? e) who can help you? and how? f) consider how you can organise your upcoming methods sessions (5 & 19 June) so they can help you realise your aim.

General question: what is the interface to your part the project. OR How do you invite people in to your project?