User:Simon/Annotation typologies
traces of book use in from the books
Typologies of traces of use identified from a previous project, which explored books from the 000-099 section of the Redmond Barry Reading Room in the State Library of Victoria.
User:Simon/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.