W3C Open Annotation: Status and Use Cases by Robert Sanderson and Paolo Ciccarese.
Presentation slides from OAI8: Innovations in Scholarly Communication, June 19-21 2013, Geneva, Switzerland.
For more details about the OpenAnnotation group: http://www.w3.org/community/openannotation/
Annotation, particularly if data storage becomes immutable, will become increasingly important.
Perhaps a revival of HyTime-based addressing or a robust version of XLink is in the offing.
As we have recently learned from the NSA, “web scale” data isn’t very much data at all.
Our addressing protocols should not be limited to any particular data subset.