Does anyone have any idea how one would cite an annotation by a Diigo user on a web page? Perhaps just as a standard web page citation using the Diigo forward url for the page?
Since web annotations are a completely new type of information source, there is no defined format yet. Therefore, I would say you can use your own format.
As you suggested yourself, I would base this format on the standard format for web page citations. IMO, the best recommendations for this come from the APA and MLA.
I would give as much information as possible (as far as the information is available and/or applicable) such as:
* Author of the annotation * Some descriptive "title" for the annotation * Author of the web page * Title of the webpage * Date of the webpage (created or last updated) * URL * Date of access
The Web is full of information about how to cite electronic resources. Just do a Google search on APA cite "electronic resources" or MLA cite "electronic resources" and you will find lots of information.
But as I said before, web annotations are something completely new, so we would have to make up our own format based on citation formats that already exist for other electronic resources.
"The status of the author in the postmodern world is an uncertain one. Though it seems self-evident that each of us has our own meanings to express, there are those, most notably French semiotician Roland Barthes, who take the notion of authorship to be a mere chimera. Barthes (1977) famously argued that if there ever were such a thing as an author, s/he is presumed "dead." Barthes writes, "a text is not a line of words releasing a single theological meaning (the 'message' of the Author-God) but a multidimensional space in which a variety of writings, none of them original, blend and clash" (p. 146). The defining characteristic of Barthes' (nonexistent) author is the ability to conceive and express original ideas. He does not say that we cannot write, simply that we cannot write anything that is unique to ourselves." (http://www.diigo.com/user/olebrudvik/multimodality+literacy+meaning-making?tab=253 , 2006, Annotation 5, from Nelson, 2005. Retrieved May 7, 2007).
This highlight above i have not written any sticky notes or comment to it. I have selectively chosen 5-6 highlights from the article. But who is the author? Both, none, Nelson, me?? Did i do what Barthes says and wrote a text that is not unique to myself but its my text? Or did i simply plagiarise. If i add a comment or sticky notes to this one how then?
Another issue is the Avatar names we use, with the big thing with second life i think it is getting towards ok to use Avatar names. I used one in a journal article and have not been punished for it yet, all though article still in revision.
It was no specific annotation. Just a general question. I am supposed to be working on my master's thesis at the moment and saw the possibility that I might want to quote an annotation.
ollitolli wrote: > loyola, can you give an example of an annotation that you would like to cite? That would make it easier to compose a suitable format. ollitolli wrote: > loyola, can you give an example of an annotation that you would like to cite? That would make it easier to compose a suitable format.
This is an idea using a fictitious example. I use Endnote which has a Personal Communication citation type (I don't see one on Zotero). There is a field erroneously named Title in which I type:
Since web annotations are a completely new type of information source, there is no defined format yet. Therefore, I would say you can use your own format.
As you suggested yourself, I would base this format on the standard format for web page citations. IMO, the best recommendations for this come from the APA and MLA.
I would give as much information as possible (as far as the information is available and/or applicable) such as:
* Author of the annotation
* Some descriptive "title" for the annotation
* Author of the web page
* Title of the webpage
* Date of the webpage (created or last updated)
* URL
* Date of access
Oliver
http://www.apastyle.org/elecsource.html
Ole
Just do a Google search on
APA cite "electronic resources" or
MLA cite "electronic resources"
and you will find lots of information.
But as I said before, web annotations are something completely new, so we would have to make up our own format based on citation formats that already exist for other electronic resources.
"The status of the author in the postmodern world is an uncertain one. Though it seems self-evident that each of us has our own meanings to express, there are those, most notably French semiotician Roland Barthes, who take the notion of authorship to be a mere chimera. Barthes (1977) famously argued that if there ever were such a thing as an author, s/he is presumed "dead." Barthes writes, "a text is not a line of words releasing a single theological meaning (the 'message' of the Author-God) but a multidimensional space in which a variety of writings, none of them original, blend and clash" (p. 146). The defining characteristic of Barthes' (nonexistent) author is the ability to conceive and express original ideas. He does not say that we cannot write, simply that we cannot write anything that is unique to ourselves."
(http://www.diigo.com/user/olebrudvik/multimodality+literacy+meaning-making?tab=253 , 2006, Annotation 5, from Nelson, 2005. Retrieved May 7, 2007).
This highlight above i have not written any sticky notes or comment to it. I have selectively chosen 5-6 highlights from the article. But who is the author? Both, none, Nelson, me?? Did i do what Barthes says and wrote a text that is not unique to myself but its my text? Or did i simply plagiarise. If i add a comment or sticky notes to this one how then?
References:
http://www.diigo.com/user/olebrudvik/multimodality+literacy+meaning-making?tab=253 (2006), Annotation 5 from Nelson, 2005. Retrieved May 7, 2007.
or
OleBrudvik (2006). Annotation 5, from Nelson 2005. Retrieved May 7, 2007 from Diigo at http://www.diigo.com/user/olebrudvik/multimodality+literacy+meaning-making?tab=253.
Another issue is the Avatar names we use, with the big thing with second life i think it is getting towards ok to use Avatar names. I used one in a journal article and have not been punished for it yet, all though article still in revision.
Cheers
Ole
My Bookmarks tagged multimodality literacy meaning-making. Retrieved May 6, 2007, from http://www.diigo.com/user/olebrudvik/multimodality+literacy+meaning-making?tab=253.
Zotero dont have one for Annotation but maybe....Diigo + Zotero....
Cheers
Ole
It was no specific annotation. Just a general question. I am supposed to be working on my master's thesis at the moment and saw the possibility that I might want to quote an annotation.
ollitolli wrote:
> loyola, can you give an example of an annotation that you would like to cite? That would make it easier to compose a suitable format.
ollitolli wrote:
> loyola, can you give an example of an annotation that you would like to cite? That would make it easier to compose a suitable format.
Comment on Phelps, Fisher and Ellis: Organisational and technological skills: The overlooked dimension of research training at http://www.ascilite.org.au/ajet/ajet22/phelps.html
I enter the year and olebrudvik as the author and generate a reference which looks like this:
Olebrudvik. (2007). Comment on Phelps, Fisher and Ellis: Organisational and technological skills: The overlooked dimension of research training at http://www.ascilite.org.au/ajet/ajet22/phelps.html.
and the in text citation is (Olebrudvik, 2007)
What do you think of this as an idea? (BTW the olebrudvik capitalisation is Endnote's not mine.