The word “annotations” is used in two different instances in Black Joy & Resilience.

The first is used to indicate the description of an item used in the project.  Like Miya says in her search tips here: Don't forget to read the annotations, the descriptions you'll find after clicking on a title.

The second use is specific to the tool we’ve used to build this site.  Let’s take a look at this use of “Annotation” in action.

I’m going to click on “Sports” in the word cloud.

The first item is a photograph of the football squad at a YMCA in Princeton, NJ.  I’m going to click on the title.

Beneath the image, you’ll see “View Annotations.” When you see this, it means that elements of a photograph or another type of item have been highlighted to give you more information.  

So let’s click on “View Annotations.”

Scroll down a bit, and you’ll see a larger version of the photograph with little boxes around folk’s faces.  Let’s click on the box around one of the kids in the first row.

What we get when we click on the box for the second kid from the right is his name, William Gales.  For the most part, all the individual annotations in this photograph will give you just names, although if we click on the box surrounding the second standing gentleman from the left, we’ll learn that Prof. Thompson was the principal of the old Witherspoon School.

The amount of information provided in these annotations is dependent on what the  Annotator/Editor assigned to describe the item found in their research.  You can also learn more by scrolling down to read the full item description.  Then you can go on a journey of discovery by clicking on other terms in the word cloud used to describe the item.

Search in joy!