Video: Experts Share Perspectives on Web Annotation by Gary Price.
From the post:
The topic of web annotation continues to grow in interest and importance.
Here’s how the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) describes the topic:
Web annotations are an attempt to recreate and extend that functionality as a new layer of interactivity and linking on top of the Web. It will allow anyone to annotate anything anywhere, be it a web page, an ebook, a video, an image, an audio stream, or data in raw or visualized form. Web annotations can be linked, shared between services, tracked back to their origins, searched and discovered, and stored wherever the author wishes; the vision is for a decentralized and open annotation infrastructure.
A Few Examples
In recent weeks and months a WC3 Web Annotation working group got underway, Hypothes.is, a company that has been working in this area for several years (and one we’ve mentioned several times on infoDOCKET) formally launched a web annotation extension for Chrome, the Mellon Foundation awarded $750,000 in research funding, and The Journal of Electronic Publishing began offering annotation for each article in the publication.
New Video
Today, Hypothes.is posted a 15 minute video (embedded below) where several experts share some of their perspectives (Why the interest in the topic? Biggest Challenges, Future Plans, etc.) on the topic of web annotation.
The video was recorded at the recent W3C TPAC 2014 Conference in Santa Clara, CA.
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I am puzzled by more than one speaker on the video referring to the lack of robust addressing as a reason why annotation has not succeeded in the past. Perhaps they are unaware of the XLink and XPointer work at the W3C? Or HyTime for that matter?
True, none of those efforts were widely supported but that doesn’t mean that robust addressing wasn’t available.
I for one will be interested in comparing the capabilities of prior efforts against what is marketed as “new web annotation” capabilities.
Annotation, particularly what was known as “extended XLinks” is very important for the annotation of materials to which you don’t have read/write access. Think about annotating texts distributed by a vendor on DVD. Or annotating text that are delivered over a web stream. A separate third-party value-add product. Like a topic map for instance.
See videos from I Annotate 2014