On Annotation

  • Good readers should be curious. Good writers certainly have been, and I think the best writers seek to develop the curiosity of the best readers. But there are so many good writers, and only so much time. And we all benefit from specialization, from the human ability to spread the load of effort and expertise. Annotated editions allow good readers to satisfy their curiosity without consuming all their time—and to discover, in gaps in the annotation, where the knowledge or curiosity of the annotators has not been enough, and where they can contribute something new.

    Brian Boyd, University of Auckland
     
 
 

News

New Publication: Self-Annotated Literary Works 1300-1900

One of our team members, Miriam Lahrsow, has recently published “Self-Annotated Literary Works: An Extensive Collection of Titles and Selected Metadata“. The collection is offered in different formats (pdf, HTML, […]

  • Special Issue “Understanding (Through) Annotations”

    Articles written in the context of the 15th International Connotations Symposium on “Understanding (Through) Annotations” (Tübingen, July 28 – August 1, 2019) will be published in a special issue of […]

  • TEASys at the Tübinger Fenster für Forschung

    On May 24, 2019, our PhD students Leonie Kirchhoff and Miriam Lahrsow, as well as our student mentors Natalia Christoforou, Lara Täuber, and Sontje Schulenburg, represented our project at the […]