On Annotation

  • Explanatory Annotation helps open up a text to the reader and, concurrently, leaves open the choice as to the kind of information s/he wishes to access. It is both a teaching and learning tool: annotating texts together in class or a peer-project as a collaborative activity, and working with annotations to learn more about a text.

    Angelika Zirker, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Germany
     
 
 

News

CfP: 15th International Connotations Symposium: Understanding (through) Annotations

Explanatory annotations have always had a somewhat precarious and even paradoxical status: with a few exceptions, they have been considered “below” the concern of the theorist and literary critic, while […]

  • TEASys at the DHd2018

    At the DHd2018 (26.2.-2.3.2018, Cologne), TEASys was presented in two different formats: Angelika Zirker, Matthias Bauer, Leonie Kirchhoff and Miriam Lahrsow presented a poster titled “TEASys: Kollaboratives digitales Annotieren als […]

  • IJHAC Special Issue on Annotating

    A special issue of the International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing on explanatory annotation (ed. Angelika Zirker and Matthias Bauer) has been published in October 2017 . We would […]