[HN Gopher] Meaning in the Margins: On the Literary Value of Ann...
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       Meaning in the Margins: On the Literary Value of Annotation
        
       Author : drdee
       Score  : 25 points
       Date   : 2021-04-12 06:53 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | knolan wrote:
       | A fun example of annotation is the novel S by Doug Dorst in
       | collaboration with J.J. Abrams.
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       | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S._(Dorst_novel)
        
       | javamonn wrote:
       | Though not textual annotation, some of my favorite recent
       | examples of the value of annotation have been NYT's Close Read
       | series [0], in which they annotate works of visual art as part of
       | communicating an idea or narrative. In some ways it feels like a
       | museum tour or lecture, but more precise (can really call out
       | specific aspects deserving focus, literally _zooming in_ the
       | browser window) and yet also more broad (can easily change
       | subjects, display new visual aids).
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       | I'm currently working on a textual annotation product, Literal
       | [1]. It's open source and implements the W3C Web Annotation spec
       | [2] natively (Yes, there's a web spec for this kind of thing!).
       | You can see a 1m video of how it works here [3]. It's currently
       | Android-only but if you found this article interesting and / or
       | find yourself wishing you could annotate or save bits of text
       | that you read, I'd love to connect with you!
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       | [0] https://www.nytimes.com/column/close-read
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       | [1] https://literal.io/
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       | [2] https://www.w3.org/TR/annotation-model/
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       | [3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nH1ukQY3Ia8
        
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