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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.
==traces of book use in ''from the books''==
Typologies of traces of use identified from a previous project called ''From the Books: SLV RBRR 000-099'', which explored books from the 000-099 section of the Redmond Barry Reading Room in the State Library of Victoria.


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* 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<br>


ACCIDENTAL DOG-EAR
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).


ANNOTATION
==thoughts and reflections==
 
My approach was one of identification based on nouns, which presented problems in describing the traces we found and the possible intention (or lack of intention) in their making. To what extent could the noun communicate what had happened? Nouns point towards things affected by actions. In a sense, to name something is to own it, and things become property much more easily than actions.
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

Latest revision as of 22:39, 5 July 2020

traces of book use in from the books

Typologies of traces of use identified from a previous project called From the Books: SLV RBRR 000-099, which explored books from the 000-099 section of the Redmond Barry Reading Room in the State Library of Victoria.

  • 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

My approach was one of identification based on nouns, which presented problems in describing the traces we found and the possible intention (or lack of intention) in their making. To what extent could the noun communicate what had happened? Nouns point towards things affected by actions. In a sense, to name something is to own it, and things become property much more easily than actions.