From the post:
The W3C Web Annotation Working Group is chartered to develop a set of specifications for an interoperable, sharable, distributed Web annotation architecture. The chartered specs consist of:
- Abstract Annotation Data Model
- Data Model Vocabulary
- Data Model Serializations
- HTTP API
- Client-side API
- Robust Link Anchoring
The working group intends to use the Open Annotation Data Model and Open Annotation Extension specifications, from the W3C Open Annotation Community Group, as a starting point for development of the data model specification.
The Robust Link Anchoring specification will be jointly developed with the WebApps WG, where many client-side experts and browser implementers participate.
Some good news for the middle of a week!
Shortcomings to watch for:
Can annotations be annotated?
Can non-Web addressing schemes be used by annotators?
Can the structure of files (visible or not) in addition to content be annotated?
If we don’t have all three of those capabilities, then the semantics of annotations will rot, just as semantics of earlier times have rotted away. The main distinction is that most of our ancestors didn’t choose to allow the rot to happen.
I first saw this in a tweet by Rob Sanderson.