Dear all,

The Open Annotation Collaboration (OAC) project is pleased to announce
an open call for statements of interest in participating in the Using
the OAC Model for Annotation Interoperability Workshop. The workshop
will be held 24-25 March 20011 in Chicago, IL and will provide an in-
depth introduction to the OAC data model and ontology for describing
scholarly annotations of Web-accessible information resources. Use
cases involving a range of scholarly annotation classes and target
media types will be presented. Participants will be asked to examine,
comment on, and provide feedback on how well the OAC data model and
framework intersects (or fails to intersect) with domain-specific
needs for scholarly annotation services and with existing discipline
or repository-specific annotation tools and services. By the end of
the day and a half workshop, attendees will be better prepared to
propose and undertake implementations of annotation tools and services
exploiting the OAC data model and ontology.

The workshop is planned for 9 AM March 24 through 1 PM March 25, 2011,
in Chicago, Illinois. Limited support is available to reimburse
invited participants for reasonable travel costs. Preliminary
statements of interest & use case briefs are due by January 24, 2011.
In the event of oversubscription, these briefs will be used to select
invitees; invitations will be issued by February 7. Please see
http://www.openannotation.org/documents/CallForWorkshopParticipation.pdf
for additional details and context; contact Tim Cole (t-
[log in to unmask]) or Jacob Jett ([log in to unmask]) for further
information.

The Open Annotation Collaboration is supported by a grant from the
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. OAC members include the University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the University of Maryland, the
University of Queensland (Australia), and the Los Alamos National
Laboratory.