2011-03-25: OAC Phase II Workshop Trip Report
I've just finished attending the Open Annotation Collaboration (OAC) Phase II Workshop in Chicago, IL (March 24-25, 2011). The quality of the presentations was very high and I was surprised at how much the OAC community has grown in a relatively short time. Although I've served on OAC technical review panels before and my student, Abdulla Alasaadi, has worked on a small prototype (to be presented at JCDL 2011) for using SVG instead of the W3C Media Fragments for specifying an annotation target, I haven't been keeping up with the OAC community as closely as I should.
The Workshop has all the presentations online, as well as a wiki that contains various commentary, use cases, etc. (also, the hash tag is "#oacwkshp"). Although all of the presentations generated a lot of discussion from the attendees, the presentations that I learned the most from were:
Thanks to Tim Cole for organizing such a successful workshop.
-- Michael
The Workshop has all the presentations online, as well as a wiki that contains various commentary, use cases, etc. (also, the hash tag is "#oacwkshp"). Although all of the presentations generated a lot of discussion from the attendees, the presentations that I learned the most from were:
- Annotation Supporting Collaborative Development of Scholarly Editions (Jane Hunter and Anna Gerber) -- a detailed description of AustLit
- Annotating the Biomedical Literature through Text Mining (Karin Verspoor) -- automatically annotating / extracting triples from the biomedical literature
- Annotation Ontology and SWAN Annotation Tool (Paolo Ciccarese) -- similar to the above (perhaps with a broader spectrum of manual <--> automatic annotation)
- Shared Canvas: Interoperability for Digitized Medieval MSS Repositories (Ben Albritton and Rob Sanderson) -- I never realized how complicated medieval manuscripts could be...
- Historic Map Annotations with YUMA (Bernhard Haslhofer) -- an impressive geospatial demo
- An OAC-Compliant Toolbox (Shannon Bradshaw) (slides not available yet) -- a toolkit approach for implementing the "scholarly primitives": discover, examine, compare, annotate, organize, synthesize, cite.
Thanks to Tim Cole for organizing such a successful workshop.
-- Michael
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