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THELANDSCAPEOFDIGITALANNOTATIONSANDITSMEANING
NIELS-OLIVERWALKOWSKICUTUCHIQUENO
LanguageTechnologiesandDigitalHumanities2016-Ljubljana
29.09.2016
OUTLINEthestateofdigitalannotationsasurveyondigitalannotationpracticesasystematologyfortheevaluationofannotationpracticesandthecontextualizationofannotationdatasomethoughtsonthedevelopmentofannotating
ACTIVITIESANDDEVELOPMENTSESFRIProjects,EUROPEANAandPELAGIOSW3COpenAnnotationandWebAnnotationannotator.jsandhypothes.isresearchfieldspecificcommunityprojects
Sandersonetal.2013
THEHIERARCHYBETWEENANNOTATEDOBJECTANDANNOTATION
Annotating,theactofcreatingassociations
betweendistinctpiecesofinformation.
THEMATRIXOFDIGITALANNOTATIONSANDITSBINARITIES
privateorpublicformalorinformalsubjectiveorfactualinformationcontentorresourcecontentstableordynamic…
QUESTIONSTOASK:1. whatareannotationstodayorinthelanguageofinfrastructureprojects,whichbest
practicesinannotatingexist?2. whatneedstobeknownfromannotationcontextssothatannotationdatacanbereasonably
usedelsewhere?Intechnicalterms,whatarethemetadataneeds?
PREVIOUSEFFORTSONTHEINTERPRETABILITYOFANNOTATIONSIN
THEDIGITALHUMANITIESChiang:AMulti-DimensionalApproachtotheStudyofOnlineAnnotationBauer&Zierker:WhippingBoysExplained.LiteraryAnnotationandDigitalHumanitiesOpenAnnotation:oa:motivatedByoa:MotivationAgosti:AhistoricalandcontemporarystudyonannotationstoderivekeyfeaturesforsystemsdesignGradmann:BeyondInfrastructure
OTHERCONTEXTDIMENSIONStheusergroupandaudiencethatisaddressedthemodel,structureandrenderabilityoftheannotationitselfthemethodologicalresearchcontextinwhichannotationsarecreatedthetypeofavailabilityoftheannotatedobjectthescientificgoalofannotating
EMBEDDINGTHESYSTEMATOLOGYtheexpressivenesofmetadataschemesforthedescriptionofannotationdataisoftennot
sufficient
vs.
thecomprehensivedescriptionofannotationinallitsdimensionsisnotfeasible
MEANINGRESIDESINANDMETADATAISOFFEREDBY
theshapeofinfrastructuresandsocialenvironmentsbyhumanactionsandcomputationalprocessesinandbetweentheseenvironmentscommunicationaboutandformalsemanticsintheseenvironments
aslongasthereisacertainsenseofstabilityamongthem
ANENVIRONMENTALAPPROACHTOINTEROPERABILITY
interoperabilityisnotjustformalsemantics,itisalsoprocesses,humanactionsandunderstandinginteroperabilityshouldbedesignedmorebystrategicpublishingandcommunicationgoalsofresearchers
WHAT'STHEMEANINGOFDIGITALANNOTATIONS
wewillfindoutthemethodologicalmeaningbydescribingannotationscenariosinawaythatisinformedbythisorothersystematologiesontheleveloftechnology,practiceandsemanticscomparableeffortstakeplaceinthecontextoftheDigitalMethodsandPracticesObservatory(DiMPO)andtheScholarlyDomainModel(SDM)
DECOUPLINGOFANNOTATIONDATAnotonlydoesannotatingextenditsscopeofapplication……alsoannotationdataisabletodecouplemoreandmorefromthemethodologicalframeofitscreation
ANNOTATIONS,THEMASTERSIGNIFIEROFSCIENTIFICKNOWLEDGEWORKWITHDIGITALTECHNOLOGIES
today,digitalannotatingrelatestoanytypeofknowledgeandknowledgworkinsciencetheytherebygiveanexampleforhowdigitaltechnologiestonedowndistinctionsthatwereoncemorecategorial