1,918 Matching Annotations
  1. Dec 2015
    1. YOM KIPPUR. The Day of Atonement. Should we fast? The question was hotly debated. To fast could mean a more certain, more rapid death. In this place, we were always fasting. It was Yom Kippur year-round. But there were those who said we should fast, precisely because it was dangerous to do so. We needed to show God that even here, locked in hell, we were capable of singing His praises.

      Religion. Even when they are starving they're still considering fasting so that they can stay true to their religion. This is an example of rhetorical question because they are wondering if they should fast or not, but its not supposed to be answered. They are asking themselves if they should fast or not. They don't want to starve, but at the same time they want to stay true to their religion too.

    2. New suits, old ones, tornovercoats, rags. For us it meant true equality: nakedness.
      1. The motif is religion
      2. When people are put through traumatic events, some turn to religion to help them live though it.
      3. "New suits, old ones, torn overcoats, rags." This is an example of sentence fragments.
      4. The sentence fragments help support the motif of religion because when these people are thrown into this traumatic event they can only think in fragments because they are so scared, but when they think about religion it helps calm them down and lets them think.
    3. He was leaning against the wall, bent shoulders sagging as if under a heavy load. I went up to him, took his hand and kissed it. I felt a tear on my hand. Whose was it? Mine? His? I said nothing. Nor did he. Never before had we understood each other so clearly.

      Father/son relationship. All the events they have gone through together caused them to become closer to each other. This is an example of rhetorical question because he is asking whose tear it was, but its not supposed to be answered. They have grown so close to each other that it doesn't matter whose tear it was to each other, but only that they are still there for each other.

    4. "Don't rejoice too soon, son. Here too there is selection. Infact, more often than outside. Germany has no need of sick Jews.Germany has no need of me. When the next transport arrives,you'll have a new neighbor. Therefore, listen to me: leave theinfirmary before the next selection!"

      1)Death 2)When people are in tough situations they give up hope. 3)Repetition 4)Through the repetition of Germany and the idea of sickness and dying it reinforces the idea of hopelessness.

    5. "Blessed be God's name..."Thousands of lips repeated the benediction, bent over liketrees in a storm.Blessed be God's name?Why, but why would I bless Him? Every fiber in me rebelled.Because He caused thousands of children to burn in His massgraves?

      1)Faith 2) When people are placed in situations they don't have control over they tend to blame someone and it is usually some figure in power which they blame. 3)Personification 4)Through the use of personification with the phrases, "...lips...bent over like trees in a storm." and "Every fiber in me rebelled." they reinforce the blame of God that Elie produces as he sees others pray to God and exalt his name even though many have died and He hasn't done anything to stop it.

    6. Afterward, we were given permission to go back to our blockand have our meal.I remember that on that evening, the soup tasted better thanever...

      1)Food 2)When people are forced into situations that are hard for them to deal with they look for comfort. 3)Imagery 4)The idea of the best soup he has had in the camp reinforces the idea that people look for comfort during times of distress. Elie finds comfort in the soup even though it was most likely the exact same soup he has had every night in the camp.

    7. I stood petrified. What had happened to me? My father hadjust been struck, in front of me, and I had not even blinked. I hadwatched and kept silent. Only yesterday, I would have dug mynails into this criminal's flesh. Had I changed that much? So fast?Remorse began to gnaw at me. All I could think was: I shall neverforgive them for this. My father must have guessed my thoughts,because he whispered in my ear:"It doesn't hurt." His cheek still bore the red mark of thehand

      1). The motif is the loss of care among prisoners.

      2). Being constantly exposed to these actions leads to the loss of care among the prisoners.

      3). When Wiesel says "What had happened to me?.. Had I changed that much? So fast?" These are examples of rhetorical questions.

      4). This use of the rhetorical question helps us fully understand how Elie is deterring mentally. He says that the previous day he would have mauled another prisoner had they done that to his Father, but today he has changed from that motivation because of all the horrific actions that he sees every single day, he's so used to it that it doesn't even affect him anymore.

    8. "You...you...you..." T h ey p o i n t ed their f i n g e r s, t he w ayone might choose cattle, or merchandise.

      The motif for this is inferiority. The quote shows just how they were treated less than human. This is a metaphor to compare how they were treated to how cattle are treated. This reinforces how badly the prisoners were treated and how they were looked upon.

    9. The Kapo launched into a lengthy explanation of theimportance of this work, warning us that anyone who proved to belazy would be held accountable. My new comrades reassured me:"Don't worry. He has to say this because of the Meister.

      The motif for this is intimidation. The people who ran the camps tried to keep the inmates in constant fear so they would do what they were told without question. This sets a very dark tone and theme to show that the inmates had to live in constant fear of people who were seen as greater than they were.

    10. "Bite your lips, little brother...Don't cry. Keep your anger,yourhate, for another day, for later. The day will come but notnow...Wait. Clench your teeth and w a i t ..

      The motif represented in this is revenge. This shows that the promise of revenge is what kept many prisoners going and living. Imagery is used because it gives you a mental image of how the revenge is keeping them alive and how.

    11. Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, that turnedmy life into one long night seven times sealed.Never shall I forget that smoke.Never shall I forget the small faces of the children whosebodies Isaw transformed into smoke under asilent sky.Never shall I forget those flames that consumed my faith for-ever.Never shall I forget the nocturnal silence that deprived mefor all eternity of the desire to live.Never shall I forget those moments that murdered my Godand my soul and turned my dreams to ashes.Never shall I forget those things, even were I condemned tolive as long as God Himself.Never

      This passage shows trauma. The purpose of this passage is to show the memories Elie will always have even if he doesn't want to remember how terrible it really was. There is repetition when it repeats "Never shall I forget..." many times. The author does this to emphasize that he will never be able to forget what happened.

    12. We believed in God, trusted in man, and lived with the illu- sion that every one of us has been entrusted with a sacred sparkfrom the Shekhinah's flame; that every one of us carries in hiseyes and in his soul a reflection of God's image

      God. He knows that god is with them, watching over. This is an example of Personification because everyone can't carries his eyes in his soul.

    13. I nodded, once, ten times, endlessly. As if myhead had de-cided to say yes for all eternity

      A)Fear B) The author included this text to emphasize how weak and fearful he was of receiving another flogging from Idek and felt as if his body was automatically answering Idek. The literary device used in this text is a simile. The device reinforces the author's purpose because Ellie represents his tiresome, submitted response to Idek's question as if his head had decided to answer for him for all eternity.

    1. Anyone can say Anything

      The “Open World Assumption” is central to this post and to the actual shift in paradigm when it comes to moving from documents to data. People/institutions have an alleged interest in protecting the way their assets are described. Even libraries. The Open World Assumption makes it sound quite chaotic, to some ears. And claims that machine learning will solve everything tend not to help the unconvinced too much. Something to note is that this ability to say something about a third party’s resource connects really well with Web annotations (which do more than “add metadata” to those resources) and with the fact that no-cost access to some item of content isn’t the end of the openness.

  2. Nov 2015
    1. Les représentants de la Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF) annoncèrent leur objectif de ramener le délai de traitement des documents à six semaines en moyenne

      C’était long, en 2002! Où en est la BnF, aujourd’hui? D’une certaine façon, ce résumé semble prédire la venue des données, la fédération des catalogues, etc. Pourtant, il semble demeurer de nombreux obstacles, malgré tout ce temps. Et si on pouvait annoter le Web directement?

    1. I was afraid.Afraid of the blows.That was why I remained deaf to his cries.Instead of sacrificing my miserable life and rushing to hisside, taking his hand, reassuring him, showing him that hewasnot abandoned, that I was near him, that I felt his sorrow, insteadof all that, I remained flat on my back, asking God to make myfather stop calling my name, to make him stop crying. So afraidwas I to incur the wrath of the SS.

      A) Fear B) One can have so much fear that they can start to only care about their own survival and begin to have so much fear that they only care about self preservation. C) One literary device he uses is restatement. D) He uses restatement to emphasize how he was afraid of the SS.

    2. Dr. Mengele, the notorious Dr. Mengele
    3. We stood stunned, petrified.Could this be just a nightmare? An unimaginable nightmare?

      A) The motif for this quote could be fear. B) The theme for this quote could be fear can blur the lines of reality and fiction. C) The stylistic devise used in this quote is rhetorical question. D) By using a rhetorical question it allows a reader to see he is questioning himself. He is so scared that he believes for a second he is in a dream. He then questions himself wondering if it is just a horrible dream. This shows how sometimes in situations of terror we can feel as though it is not even reality.

    4. The baton, once more, moved to the left. A weight lifted frommy heart.

      A) The motif in this quote could be father/son relationship. B) A theme for this quote could be even in the most extreme situations love for you family still prevails. C) This stylistic device that is found in this quote is an idiom. D) When he says that a weight is lifted from his heart it shows that his heart was heavy from the thought of being split from his father. When his father is put into the same group as him and the weight seems to be lifted it shows that even in the situation they are in his father is the only thing that matters to him. Thus, connecting to the theme of love for your family prevailing through horrific times.

    5. By day I studied Talmud and by night I would run to the syna-gogue to weep over the destruction of the Temple

      This shows religion. You can do one thing while feeling different. He uses slang/dialect in words such as Talmud and synagogue. he does what he is supposed to during the day but lets his feelings out at night.

    6. Days went by. Then weeks and months. Life was normalagain.

      A: Overwhelmed B: To show how different it was and how easily it changed. C and D: Sentence fragments are used to reinforce the idea of showing how fast and easily their lives changed.

    7. I wanted to run away, but my feet were nailed to the floor. Idek grabbed me by the throat.

      Fear. He knew he wouldn't be able to run away from Idek. This is an example of hyperbole because his feet weren't literally nailed to the floor. He could have ran away from Idek, but the fear was holding him down from running away.

    8. "Yisgadal, veyiskadash, shmey raba...May His name be cele-brated and sanctified..." whispered my father.

      Religion. They are in a tough time and are seeking to religion to help themselves and their people. It makes them feel more safe and comfortable in a dangerous environment. This is an example of restatement because the quote is shown in two languages. They keep repeating religious quotes in memory of their people.

    9. she looked like a withered tree in a field of wheat

      A) The motif or subject that is continuously repeated is depression B)Traumatic events can lead to people being depressed and hopeless C)The stylistic technique used in this quote is a simile D)This simile reinforces the purpose of the quote because it's stating that the character is "withered" or worn out and depressed, from these traumatic events.

    10. I remember that night, the most horrendous of my life:...Eliezer, my son, comehere... I want to tell yousomething...Onlytoyou...Come, d o n 't l e a ve me a l o n e ... E l i e z e r ..

      Father/Son relationship: Because of these quotes it's telling us that family member care for each other, even if it's they'er last day of living. This quote is using connotation, to show the emotion of how the dad feels about the son.

    11. I let the SS beat my father, I left him alone in theclutches of death. Worse: I was angry with him for having beennoisy, for having cried, for provoking the wrath of the SS

      Father/Son: the authors purpose is to show these harsh conditions changed people, it caused them to do anything to survive, even if it meant family was left behind. It uses imagery to show how he was split from his father, and the brutality of it. This device helps reinforce the topic, because it shows that to survive, he left his father when he was dying. It shows how he was willing to leave his flesh in blood behind, out of fear.

    12. "Yisgadal, veyiskadash, shmey raba...May His name be cele-brated and sanctified..." whispered my father.

      Religion When all seems hopeless, people need something to lean on so they feel not all is lost. Earlier in the book the father was not religious at all and even discouraged Elie to read and study religion, but once in the death camp he prayed and recited their book of religion.This an example of repetition of how he repeats it to insure that it works somehow. He repeated it in jewish and in english.

    13. The wind of revolt died down

      Trauma; People were flustered during this time yet were forced to get over it to stay focused; Personification; People were in disgust and fear for what they'd just witness of the vital babies being thrown into the fire.

    14. Was it to leave behind a legacy of words, of memories, to helpprevent history from repeating itself?

      Denial; Because of a piece of writing, these actions shouldn't take place again; Rhetorical Question; I highly doubt that the action of writing a novel about the genocide would prevent the world from repeating these horrific actions. If so, I believe the Holocaust would not have triggered after .. slavery, a genocide itself.

    15. People thought this was a good thing. We would no longerhave to look at all those hostile faces, endure those hate-filledstares. No more fear. No more anguish. We would live among Jews, among brothers...

      Denial People didn't want to have to live with the reality that their world was crumbling before them. so they tried to make the best out of it in order to see the positive side instead of what it really was. This is parallelism as the he was shortening the sentences to get across the main, simple point of how they were belittling their problems and not taking it in the serious, ground shattering way that it was.

    16. My father was a cultured man, rather unsentimental. He rarelydisplayed his feelings, not even within his family, and was moreinvolved with the welfare of others than with that of his own kin.The Jewish community of Sighet held him in highest esteem; hisadvice on public and even private matters was frequently sought.

      A) Father/Son relationship B) I believe that this is just giving some background information on his relationship with his father, and showing how his father interacts with the rest of the family. It's saying that you might see your parents in an entirely different way than how the community sees them. C) A small bit of repetition when he tells his father's traits D) This helps show the theme/motif by really showing how his father acts towards the family, but then is completely different towards people outside of the family.

    1. entity called “comment,”

      Post, comment, annotation… All different, but can all have the same predicate.

    2. If you write a post and I write a post on my own blog referring to yours, my blog post also “is a response to” your blog post.

      Chain of attribution, as @Shepazu would have it.

    1. The future of news is still about journalism? We can annotate any content. This piece makes it sound as though journalism should become even more controlling.

  3. Oct 2015
    1. why not annotate, say, the Eiffel Tower itself

      As long as it has some URI, it can be annotated. Any object in the world can be described through the Semantic Web. Especially with Linked Open Data.

    2. machine-readable, ‘semantic’ annotations.

      Waiting for those to be promoted, through Hypothesis and other Open Annotations platforms.

    3. a web-wide ‘Like’ feature could just be implemented as a special kind of annotation

      Unlike some other approaches to development, this acknowledgment that usage can push innovation could help expand Hypothesis beyond a core base of “annotation geeks”. Document-level annotations can serve to classify or evaluate, like social bookmarking. What’s wrong with that?

    4. As they are distinguishable documents too, annotations can even be annotated themselves.

      Tell that to Genius! Image Description

    1. A purr can translate to contentment, sure, but it could also indicate hunger, or fright.

      As a child, I once watched a mother cat purr as its kitten--grabbed and shaken by a dog--died five feet away.

  4. Sep 2015
    1. ibrary to easily add annotation functionality to any webpage. Annotations can

      This is a test. Library

    1. (If this intrigues you, check out Hypothes.is, a socially-conscious annotation service you can use today).
  5. Aug 2015
    1. but in conversations with educators of late I’ve come to realize that we often mean different things by the word “annotate.” Annotation connotes something distinct in specific subject areas, at different  grade and skill levels, and within certain teaching philosophies.

      One group I've been in conversation with lately that has troubled my idea of what it means to annotate is the National Writing Project community.

      One particular conversation with those folks took place as part of an Educator Innovator webinar that you can watch here.

      Image Description

      Thanks, Erick Gordon, Adele Bruni, Nathan Blom, and Louis Lafair!

    1. I feel that there is a great benefit to fixing this question at the spec level. Otherwise, what happens? I read a web page, I like it and I am going to annotate it as being a great one -- but first I have to find out whether the URI my browser is used, conceptually by the author of the page, to represent some abstract idea?
  6. Jul 2015
    1. Let me be very clear: I do not care what the “top highlight” is. In fact, I actively do not want to know what the top highlight is. That kind of information encourages the meme-ification of the web, a world where we care more about pushing one sentence over the “tipping point” into virality than in carrying on a global conversation. It’s American Idol for pull quotes.
    1. DARIAH AAI and Schema Registry are wonderful services to organize and to query interdisciplinary and multiperspective annotation data. By this, real added value would be created because annotation could work as a communicative entity for cross domain/project research

      ... i.e. generic search ...

    2. sustainability of service and data

      ... and community building, interoperability,

    1. Davis, Allison P. "Sheila Heti on Drinking Her Way to a Child's-Eye View" from Department of Corrections in The Cut July 16, 2015 annotation as a correction to existing online resources such as Wikipedia

    1. To these basic citations, the annotated bibliography adds descriptive and evaluative comments (i.e., an annotation), assessing the nature and value of the cited works. The addition of commentary provides the future reader or researcher essential critical information and a foundation for further research.
    1. Google Annotations Gallery

      what is this resource? what does it do?

    2. The Google Annotations Gallery is an exciting new Java open source library that provides a rich set of annotations for developers to express themselves. Do you find the standard Java annotations dry and lackluster? Have you ever resorted to leaving messages to fellow developers with the @Deprecated annotation? Wouldn't you rather leave a @LOL or @Facepalm instead? If so, then this is the gallery for you.
    1. Sec. 15-7. - Injuring or defacing library property. Whoever willfully injures or defaces any book, newspaper, magazine, pamphlet, manuscript, or other property belonging to the city library by writing, marking, tearing, breaking, or otherwise mutilating shall be fined as provided in section 1-8. (Code 1964, amended, § 19.19(A)) Cross reference— Damage to public property, § 17-26. State Law reference— Criminal mischief, V.A.P.C. § 28.03; reckless damage of property, § 28.04.
    1. The on-line annotations were also more likely to be anchored in complete sentences.

      This seems odd. Maybe the interface in some way pushed them toward this? For instance, I sometimes think the way that Hypothesis shows the quote in the annotation card severs it from its context in such a way as to make it seem out of place when highlighting just that portion seemed fine inline.

    2. although personal annotations with content (e.g. notes) occur infrequently on paper they are far more likely to form the basis of on-line commentary.
    3. Which annotations will people want to intentionally share? Will other readers be able to make sense of these annotations?

      Key questions.

  7. Jun 2015
    1. Enter the Daily Mail website, MailOnline, and CNN online. These sites display news stories with the main points of the story displayed as bullet points that are written independently of the text. “Of key importance is that these summary points are abstractive and do not simply copy sentences from the documents,” say Hermann and co.

      Someday, maybe projects like Hypothesis will help teach computers to read, too.

    1. “the process through which a person becomes capable of taking what was learned in one situation and applying it to new situations; in other words, learning for ‘transfer . ’”

      What better way to do this than taking a skill- or content-based lesson and applying it to the web as a practice through annotation.

  8. May 2015
    1. That is, the human annotators are likely to assign different relevance labels to a document, depending on the quality of the last document they had judged for the same query. In addi- tion to manually assigned labels, we further show that the implicit relevance labels inferred from click logs can also be affected by an- choring bias. Our experiments over the query logs of a commercial search engine suggested that searchers’ interaction with a document can be highly affected by the documents visited immediately be- forehand.
    1. Hope you read Latin

      In publishing and graphic design, lorem ipsum is a filler text commonly used to demonstrate the graphic elements of a document or visual presentation.

    1. —both in the future as a better world and as one in which the United States bestrides the globe as a colossus. 2

      On the public version of this PDF at Project Muse (password protected), I've created an annotation at this point in the text. But it does not appear in this local version of the PDF.

    2. 3XEOLVKHGE\-RKQV+RSNLQV8QLYHUVLW\3UHVV

      This is my demo PDF for local annotation with hypothes.is. See my sample annotation on the first paragraph of the essay. Add your own test annotations and replies.

  9. Apr 2015
    1. Patient groups, lastly, could write open letters to all companies and researchers withholding methods and results of trials on treatments taken by their members, represent their constituencies by holding individuals to reasonable account, and again help improve compliance.

      Hmmm. Perhaps annotation would be a better mechanism.

    2. This negates a key defence commonly cited by trialists and sponsors when facing calls for greater transparency: that journals reject “negative” results. All trials can now be reported, immediately, using clinicaltrials.gov as a first or last resort, if the trialist is willing. The question remains: how can we ensure this is done?

      Raises the question about whether regulatory agencies could use annotations, as part of Resource Watch, to question whether data that should have been released was released.

  10. Feb 2015
    1. A "non-transparent proxy" is a proxy that modifies the request or response in order to provide some added service to the user agent, such as group annotation services, media type transformation, protocol reduction, or anonymity filtering.

      Hey look!!1! "group annotation services"!

      Here's one: http://via.hypothes.is/

    1. Annotations show in stream

      Is this stream the annotations in the sidebar or a stream that is independent of the sidebar. This independent stream will be important for inter-page groups if used by say research or educational groups..

    1. For mobile we can’t use the desktop adder since Android and iOS present their own popup menus.

      Sites like Medium do as well. We may wish to consider that.

    2. This would be good for accessibility as screen readers won’t have to navigate the dom looking for the button.

      Nice point.

  11. Jan 2015
    1. Die Schere im Kopf

      Schöne Beschreibung des Schreibprozesses. Nicht selten verschwinden geisteswissenschaftliche (Vor-) Arbeiten "in der Versenkung".

    1. The software also includes a new "noting mode", which will let users scribble or type over a page and then share it with others.
  12. Dec 2014
    1. ANNOTATION The information in B is additional to and subsidiary to that in A. Annotation is used by one person to write the equivalent of "margin notes" or other criticism on another's document, for example. Example: The relationship between a newsgroup and its articles. Acyclic.

      Annotation link relationship in HTML 1.0 circa 1993.

  13. Nov 2014
    1. Ich vermute sehr, dass offenes Annotieren im Web eine zentrale digitale Kommunikationsform der näheren Zukunft wird.

      Dies gilt jedenfalls, wenn Annotationstools so einfach und intuitiv gestaltet sind wie dieser Annotator.

  14. Oct 2014
  15. Sep 2014
    1. An array of FDF annotation dictionaries (see “FDF Annotation Dictionaries” on page 681). The array can include annotations of any of the standard types listed in Table 8.16 on page 580 except Link , Movie , Widget , PrinterMark , Screen , and TrapNet .
  16. Jul 2014
    1. At a recent gathering in Berlin, we considered the idea of attaching a suggested action, like a petition or campaign, to web articles. The hope was to facilitate action at the moment people encounter issues online.

      I like this idea!

  17. Apr 2014
  18. Feb 2014
    1. Why highlight? Like annotating, highlighting may seem unimportant if you create thorough, well-constructed briefs, but highlighting directly helps you to brief. It makes cases, especially the more complicated ones, easy to digest, review and use to extract information. Highlighting takes advantage of colors to provide a uniquely effective method for reviewing and referencing a case. If you prefer a visual approach to learning, you may find highlighting to be a very effective tool.

      Why highlight?

    2. Pencil or pen — which is better to use when annotating? Our recommendation is a mechanical pencil.

      How about http://hypothes.is/ ?!

    3. In addition to making it easier to review an original case, annotating cases during the first review of a case makes the briefing process easier. With adequate annotations, the important details needed for your brief will be much easier to retrieve. Without annotations, you will likely have difficulty locating the information you seek even in the short cases. It might seem strange that it would be hard to reference a short case, but even a short case will likely take you at least fifteen to twenty-five minutes to read, while longer cases may take as much as thirty minutes to an hour to complete. No matter how long it takes, the dense material of all cases makes it difficult to remember all your thoughts, and trying to locate specific sections of the analysis may feel like you are trying to locate a needle in a haystack. An annotation in the margin, however, will not only swiftly guide you to a pertinent section, but will also refresh the thoughts that you had while reading that section.

      Why annotate a legal brief?

  19. Jan 2014
  20. Nov 2013
    1. good to see others want to move highlights/annotation between Moon+ Reader Pro and other systems like Calibre

    1. My esteemed colleague Jules Verne used to write inventive techno-thrillers, such as Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. This cool book is about a dread pirate. Captain Nemo is an anonymous tech-genius anarchist, a stateless marauder who lives inside a self-built, mysterious, super-machine. Quite a catchy notion by Jules there. It really sticks with the reader long-term.

      Testing to see if hypothes.is annotation plays well with medium.com annotation.

  21. Oct 2013
    1. Modern science has proved that the fundamental traits of every individual are indelibly stamped in the shape of his body, head, face and hands—an X-ray by which you can read the characteristics of any person on sight.

      Ma première annotation partagée publiquement!

  22. Aug 2013