All knowledge, annotated

Presenter: Dan Whaley (Hypothes.is, USA)

Abstract:
This August the W3C chartered the Web Annotation Working Group, based around an RDF data model called Open Annotation, which is rapidly being integrated into new open source tools and software libraries and adopted by a diverse cross-section of scholars, scientists, educators and others. The potential is to create a new layer over the web as we know it, enabling a rich set of interactive capabilities that until now have not been possible. This talk will provide an overview of the history behind annotation as an essential idea of the web, demonstrate some of the ways its being used and suggest plans for further development.

Transcript

1. What the #%*&! is the Semantic Web?
2. “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
3. How can we give every user a voice on every document? (and maintain high signal vs noise!)
4. What are the basic building blocks we need?
6. Trailblazing - What a Memex machine might look like
7. Transclusion - Project Xanadu, Imagined 1960, Shipped June 2014
8. Tim Berners-Lee http://www.w3.org/History/1989/proposal.htm One must also be able to annotate links, as well as nodes, ... ” “
12. w3.org/annotation (Est. August 19, 2014)
13. Why will this succeed... now? (or, why won’t we just fail miserably?)
14. Annotation is all around us.
20. ... “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
21. Organizations building standards- compliant applications
27. /NeutrinoChasers /arXiv /MIT-Phys332 @dwhly + @tilgovi Reader
29. A non-profit project to enable community moderated annotation of the world’s knowledge.
31. An annotation target address message
32. target (specific location) message
33. Digital annotations are addressable http://domain/path
34. Now
35. Blog “B” Document “A” Coming Soon
36. Blog “B” Document “A”
37. Blog “B” Document “A”
38. Blog “B” 17m 32s
39. Blog “B”
40. It’s like the web. • Interoperable • Decentralized • Open source • (Hopefully) backwards compatible
41. 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
42. 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
43. In Implementation (partial list)
44. Demo