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Open Annotation Workshop, March 24-25, 2011,
Chicago
The Open Annotation Collaboration continues to move ahead, and
has just announced a workshop to help validate and expand the
applicability of the model that they have developed. I've reproduced
the announcement below.
Clifford Lynch
Director, CNI
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The Open Annotation Collaboration (OAC) project is pleased to
announce an open call for statements of interest in participating in
the Using the OAC Model for Annotation Interoperability
Workshop. The workshop will be held 24-25 March 2011 in Chicago,
IL and will provide an in- depth introduction to the OAC data model
and ontology for describing scholarly annotations of Web-accessible
information resources.
Use cases suggested by workshop participants and involving a
range of scholarly annotation classes and target media types will be
discussed. Participants will be asked to examine, comment on, and
provide feedback on how well the OAC data model and framework
intersects (or fails to intersect) with domain-specific needs for
scholarly annotation services and with existing discipline or
repository-specific annotation tools and services. By the end of the
day and a half workshop, attendees will be better prepared to propose
and undertake implementations of annotation tools and services that
leverage the OAC data model and ontology.
The workshop is planned for 9 AM March 24 through 1 PM March 25,
2011, in Chicago, Illinois. Limited support is available to reimburse
invited participants for reasonable travel costs. Preliminary
statements of interest & use case briefs are requested by January
24, 2011. In the event of oversubscription, these briefs will be used
to select invitees; invitations will be issued by February 7.
The Open Annotation Collaboration is supported by a grant from
the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. OAC members include the University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the University of Maryland, the
University of Queensland (Australia), and the Los Alamos National
Laboratory.
Thanks,
Tim Cole
University of Illinois at UC
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