I have been writing about services for annotating online web content and video for at least five years. now. I think of what these services allow users to do as layering – adding annotations of various types on top of existing resources in a way that does not actually modify the source. I keep finding new implementations of this approach. the latest is Speculative Annotation.
Speculative Annotation is a dynamic website, presenting items from the Library’s collections for students, teachers, and other users to annotate through captions, drawings, and other types of markmaking.
The site allows K12 students to annotate a variety of images and text from the Library of Congress collection and to see annotations offered by Library of Congress staff.
I thought the following image would make a good example. The annotation tools are shown within the red box.
Staff annotations
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