All knowledge, annotated

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What the #%*&! is the Semantic Web?

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“The Semantic Web is a collaborative movement led by international standards body the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).[1] ... By encouraging the inclusion of semantic content in web pages, the Semantic Web aims at converting the current web, dominated by unstructured and semi- structured documents into a ‘web of data’.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_Web

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How can we give every user a voice on every document? (and maintain high signal vs noise!)

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What are the basic building blocks we need?

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Trailblazing - What a Memex machine might look like

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Transclusion - Project Xanadu, Imagined 1960, Shipped June 2014

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Tim Berners-Lee http://www.w3.org/History/1989/proposal.htm One must also be able to annotate links, as well as nodes, ... ” “

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w3.org/annotation (Est. August 19, 2014)

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Why will this succeed... now? (or, why won’t we just fail miserably?)

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Annotation is all around us.

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... “Although the screen-view PDF cannot be printed, it can be annotated — which the publisher says will provide a way for scientists to collaborate by sharing their comments on manuscripts.” http://www.nature.com/news/nature-makes-all-articles-free-to-view-1.16460

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Organizations building standards- compliant applications

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/NeutrinoChasers /arXiv /MIT-Phys332 @dwhly + @tilgovi Reader

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A non-profit project to enable community moderated annotation of the world’s knowledge.

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An annotation target address message

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target (specific location) message

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Digital annotations are addressable http://domain/path

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Now

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Blog “B” Document “A” Coming Soon

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Blog “B” Document “A”

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Blog “B” Document “A”

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Blog “B” 17m 32s

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Blog “B”

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It’s like the web. • Interoperable • Decentralized • Open source • (Hopefully) backwards compatible

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Possible features • Groups • Image & video annotation • Moderation, voting, flexible peer-review models • Automated spam detection • Copy-editing features (resolve) • Semantic tagging & external taxonomies • Offline functionality

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What are the powerful, semantic-like things? • User-driven linking • Robust, precise anchors • Media-rich bodies • Semantic tags • Machine-generated annotations • Support for a wide range of document and media formats • Interoperable data format with a set of quality open-source libs