From the Throwaway example, or from almost any other passage from Ulysses (or, for that matter, from any other work) that might be given – and with the differences between print and screen presentation in mind – several questions about annotation can be formulated:
| What should be annotated? |
| What, if anything, should be not annotated? |
| Should information be presented differently for first-time readers than for later ones? If so, how can this be done? |
| How should the information be presented, given the many possibilities opened up by computer links? |
| Can there be too much information? Too little? Is there a desirable mean? |
| Is there a line between information and interpretation? If so, how do we proceed in order not to cross it? If not, how do we construct annotations? |
| Do these questions change for different categories of information (historical, other languages, intertextuality)? |
None of these questions have clear answers, and, in some cases, the possible answers for a digital presentation of the Throwaway example will be different from those for a print one. I'll go through the questions one by one.
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Questions Regarding Annotations
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