- a [[project]]
	- [[open source]] [[public art]] [[web application]]
	- [[go]] https://labs.loc.gov/work/experiments/annotation/
- a [[talk]]
	- [[i annotate]]
		- [[2021-06-21]]
	- [[social learning across content]]
	- by [[courtney mcclellan]]
		- [[innovator in residence at the library of congress]]

Contemporary artists using annotation.

Erasure series by  [[bethany joy collins]]. A trace of language:

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[[wendy red star]]'s [[medicine man]]:

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[[laura owens]] created a series of emojis that could be downloaded by attendees:

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Why do artists annotate?

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Motivation. The enjoyment at the margins (or in the overlay?).

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About Speculative Annotation.

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Speculation references speculative fiction (fantasy, sci fi).

[[Speculation is a form of investigation]]:

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Goals: [[direct conversation with primary sources]],  [[share items in a context]]:

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Demo: 

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Everything is saved in the browser. There's no server.

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There is a [[speculative annotation mini collection]].

[[codex]] will like this one:

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The project spanned 12 (!) divisions of the library.

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User testing.

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Then the talk went into amazing examples of annotation by students, which I won't reproduce here as they had written consent to show work by minors and I wouldn't want to breach anyone's consent.

No social support:

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Except #AnnotateLOC (could be aggregated in the [[agora]]?).

The [[rosenwald manuscript]] annotated:

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[[patsy mink]] manuscript annotations by [[liz novara]]:

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Thanks: 

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Activity: we annotate [[the left hand of darkness]]. But first Q&A.

- [[q]] does the tool have a way to take their annotations with them?
	- it's all in browser local storage; there is no server component. but there's no flow to be able to access annotations remotely, and you shouldn't clear your browser cache :)
	- (I wonder if [[ipfs]] or even [[fission]] could be a good fit for this)
- [[q]] what if you had a button to save annotation .png files to the [[internet archive]]?
	- (sounds great to me)
	- [[jaime mears]]
		- would be great, is a matter of funding + time + working through the standards that the library of congress holds for [[pii]]
		- the server really would host just a very lightweight json file essentially. the architecture is sound.
- [[q]] how to get involved?
	- [[jaime mears]]
		- they would love it if people got involved
		- it's all in github
		- reach out! https://labs.loc.gov
		- twitter: ?
			- said https://twitter.com/LCLabs in chat but it doesn't look like it
- Now we annotate :)
	- [[annotate]] https://via.hypothes.is/https://www.penguin.com/ajax/books/excerpt/9780441007318