Welcome
Annotating is a pervasive element of scholarly practice for both the humanist and the scientist. Over time annotations have scholarly value in their own right. The importance of annotating as a scholarly practice coupled with the real-world limitations of existing practices and tools supporting annotation of digital content has had a retarding effect on the growth of digital scholarship and the level of digital resource use by scholars.
The overarching goals of the Open Annotation Collaboration (OAC) are to facilitate to emergence of a Web and resource-centric interoperable annotation environment that allows leveraging annotations across the boundaries of annotation clients, annotation servers, and content collections, to demonstrate the utility of this environment, and to see widespread adoption of this environment.
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Please Note:
The Open Annotation specification is currently used as input for the
activities of the W3C Open Annotation Community Group that works
towards a common, RDF-based, specification for annotating digital
resources. The Group effort starts by working towards a reconciliation
of two proposals that have emerged over the past two years: the
Annotation Ontology and the Open Annotation Model. Initially, editors
of these proposals will closely collaborate to devise a common draft
specification that addresses requirements and use cases that were
identified in the course of their respective efforts. The goal is to
make this draft available for public feedback and experimentation in
the second quarter of 2012. The final deliverable of the Open
Annotation Community Group will be a specification, published under an
appropriate open license, that is informed by the existing proposals,
the common draft specification, and the community feedback.
