THELANDSCAPEOFDIGITALANNOTATIONSANDITSMEANING

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LanguageTechnologiesandDigitalHumanities2016-Ljubljana

29.09.2016

DARIAHANDTHEWORKINGGROUPONDIGITALANNOTATIONS

OUTLINEthestateofdigitalannotationsasurveyondigitalannotationpracticesasystematologyfortheevaluationofannotationpracticesandthecontextualizationofannotationdatasomethoughtsonthedevelopmentofannotating

STATEOFDIGITALANNOTATIONS

ACTIVITIESANDDEVELOPMENTSESFRIProjects,EUROPEANAandPELAGIOSW3COpenAnnotationandWebAnnotationannotator.jsandhypothes.isresearchfieldspecificcommunityprojects

Sandersonetal.2013

THEHIERARCHYBETWEENANNOTATEDOBJECTANDANNOTATION

Annotating,theactofcreatingassociations

betweendistinctpiecesofinformation.

THEINTERCHANGEABILITYBETWEENBODYANDTARGET

ANNOTATIONSASFIRST-CLASSRESEARCH-PUBLICATIONS

THETEMPORALPRECEDENCEOFTHEANNOTATEDOBJECT

THEVISIBILITYOFANNOTATIONSANDTHERANGEOFANNOTATION

PRACTICEScollaboration,crowdsourcingandvisibility

THEMATRIXOFDIGITALANNOTATIONSANDITSBINARITIES

privateorpublicformalorinformalsubjectiveorfactualinformationcontentorresourcecontentstableordynamic…

QUESTIONSTOASK:1. whatareannotationstodayorinthelanguageofinfrastructureprojects,whichbest

practicesinannotatingexist?2. whatneedstobeknownfromannotationcontextssothatannotationdatacanbereasonably

usedelsewhere?Intechnicalterms,whatarethemetadataneeds?

THEMEANINGINANNOTATIONS…orwhichcontextdimensionscreateanimpactontheinterpretabilityofannotations

PREVIOUSEFFORTSONTHEINTERPRETABILITYOFANNOTATIONSIN

THEDIGITALHUMANITIESChiang:AMulti-DimensionalApproachtotheStudyofOnlineAnnotationBauer&Zierker:WhippingBoysExplained.LiteraryAnnotationandDigitalHumanitiesOpenAnnotation:oa:motivatedByoa:MotivationAgosti:AhistoricalandcontemporarystudyonannotationstoderivekeyfeaturesforsystemsdesignGradmann:BeyondInfrastructure

DARIAHWORKINGGROUPQUESTIONNAIRE

THEFABRICATIONOFTHEANNOTATEDOBJECT

THEFRAGMENTDIMENSION

LAYERSOFMEANINGBEHINDTHESURFACEOFANNOTATEDOBJECTS

TRANSPARENCYABOUTTHESEMANTICSINTHEANNOTATION

THEDIALOGICASPECTOFANNOTATIONS

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

LTDH2016"LanguageTechnologies"OR"DigitalHumanities""LanguageTechnologies"AND"DigitalHumanities"

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