Crowd-sourced Annotations for Herman Melville’s Mardi

Name: Chad A. Hines
Affiliation: Grand View University
URL: http://youtu.be/ftdjYKJexhw

This Beta Sprint projects takes Mardi, Herman Melville’s largely neglected “philosophical romance,” as emblematic of the evolving and spontaneous storytelling style characteristic of both oral and digital narratives. It is well suited, the project argues, to experiments in crowdsourced, online annotation that cohere slowly over time, through the process of anonymous remixing, annotating, and associating files. The video is assembled from public domain and creative commons resources, and to further explore new digital formats, the project’s creator has also begun recording an audio version of the book at librivox.org (https://forum.librivox.org/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=35365).