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

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. ]