

WG will be collocated the day before the IĪnnotate 2015 conference, at Fort Mason, San Francisco,Ģ8 October 2014 – Santa Clara, California The second face-to-face (f2f) meeting of the Web Annotation (Technical Plenary and Advisory Committee) Meetings Week, inĢ2 April 2015 – San Francisco, California The third face-to-face (f2f) meeting of the Web Annotation WG Registrationįor working group members interested in attending, please None planned at the moment Past Meetings Tuesday-Wednesday,Īnnotate on the 19th and 20th at Microsoft Atrium. Tim Cole (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) The W3C Team Contacts for the Web Annotation Working Group are This group works in public, with details in the WG's Open Annotation Community Group, as a starting point forĭevelopment of the data model specification. Not output were produced during the current charter.Īnnotation Extension specifications, from the W3C The topic of Robust Anchoring were under exploration, but The needs of a Client-Side API for Annotations as well as To make the use of these classes easier and more broadly usable by other Specification has also been extracted into a Working Group Note, which is intended The Working Group has also published a separate note on Embedding Web Annotations in HTML, exploring various ways annotations can be added to an HTML file using current specifications like JSON-LD or RDFa.įinally, the selectors and states defined in the Over the course of its charter, this group has created the following Recommendations: Web Annotation Data Model Describes the underlying Annotation Abstract Data ModelĪs well as a JSON-LD serialization Web Annotation Vocabulary The Vocabulary which underpins the Web Annotation Data Model Web Annotation Protocol The HTTP API for publishing, syndicating, and distributing Web Annotations Sharable, distributed Web Annotation architecture. To develop a set of specifications for an interoperable, Is available in the working group's specification repository. The W3C Web Annotation Working Group is part of the scope is more than just publishing Web annotation is for all content That there will be an ongoing relationship between the two Requirements, and further discussion of annotation issues thatĪre outside the scope of the Web Annotation WG. The OA CG will still continue driving use cases and

We will use the Open Annotation specs as the basis Has a broader scope, including the development of server-sideĪnd client-side APIs and other missing pieces of the annotationĪrchitecture. This data model was described in the OpenĪnnotation Data Model specification. That created an RDF-based data model for exchanging annotationsīetween applications. What's the relationship with Open Annotations?Īnnotation Community Group is an informal public group The vision is for a decentralized and open annotationįor a detailed high-level overview of this idea, see the proposed Searched and discovered, and stored wherever the author wishes Linked, shared between services, tracked back to their origins, It will allow anyone to annotate anything anywhere,īe it a web page, an ebook, a video, an image, an audio stream, WebĪnnotations are an attempt to recreate and extend thatįunctionality as a new layer of interactivity and linking on top In printed books, maps, picture, and other physical media. Traditional annotations are marginalia, errata, and highlights Web Annotation Working Group What are Web Annotations? For further discussions on the evolution of Web Annotation technologies at W3C, possible errata, etc, please join the W3C Open Annotation Community Group. Its Recommendations and Working Group Notes

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