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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 * 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.

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