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08_05_2019 Exploring Annotation possibilities

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?

22_05_2019 Developing future workshop around annotation

Aim

This series of workshops aims make to the operations of the shadow library visible. We approach this through a series of methods of annotation which investigate its structure. We use methods which usually involve modes of encryption and encoding (watermarking &c). We aim to make visible the processes of labour, production and distribution which are usefully rendered invisible. These methods provide modes of annotation. We will use a particular collection of texts. The aim is to set up a system which can be applied on a local level and later be extended.

refining the possibilities discussed during last session

what technologies of annotation could be developed?

Analog and digital annotation
Multimedia annotation in new platforms, has annotating Music, Video, Lyrics
Watermarking as a form of annotating authorship, how turning it around and delete the watermarks. Rather than being proprietorial, how to twist this. Use watermarking to create the ability to define provenance.
Merge multiple annotations of the same content on a single place https://www.iri.centrepompidou.fr/outils/lignes-de-temps-2/?lang=en_us
https://web.hypothes.is/
The plurality of annotation systems, annotation through different medium, that there is not perfect system.
Metadata [annotations in files that are apparently invisible, for the computer to read, such as SISO]
Social network for multiple annotations / or collectively indexing [on reddit, people annotate threads by voting and downvoting; on douban (Chinese semi-social media platform on books and media, users can annotate reading remarks.] http://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/User:Tancre/Special_Issue_9/About_categories,_tags,_keywords,_metadata_and_so_on...]
Levels of annotation/ hierarchies?establish rules to define the relevance of annotations. Annotation as thermometer for relevance
Recording verbal annotations coming from collective reading/watching/listening: transcribe discussions