Forwarded:

The Open Annotation Collaboration (OAC) project is pleased to announce
a Request For Proposal to collaborate with OAC researchers for
building implementations of the OAC data model and ontology. The OAC
is seeking to collaborate with scholars and/or librarians currently
using and/or curating established repositories of scholarly digital
resources with well-defined audiences of scholars. The OAC intends to
fund a set of four projects that are complementary in content media
type and use cases that leverage the OAC Data Model to the fullest
extent, and that leverage existing annotation tools or at least have
articulated an interesting scholarly annotation use case.

Two of the successful Respondents will collaborate with OAC
researchers at the University of Maryland and the other two will
collaborate with OAC research at the University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign. (For these collaborations, Illinois and Maryland
will provide guidance on the implementation of the OAC data model and
ontology, help in defining extensions of the data model that might be
necessary, advice on existing tools that might be adaptable for the
demonstration experiment, feedback on correctness of mappings from/to
native annotation formats and/or annotations created.)

The full text of the RFP can be found at
http://www.openannotation.org/documents/openAnnotationRFP.pdf

The IP agreement attachment to this RFP is available at:
http://www.openannotation.org/documents/openAnnotationIP_Agreement_forRFP.pdf

A FAQ about this RFP is available at:
http://www.openannotation.org/RFP_FAQs.html

Please make all submissions regarding this RFP, including your letter
of intent and proposal, to [log in to unmask]

Questions: regarding any details of this RFP should also be emailed to
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from individuals will be posted immediately on the RFP FAQ page
mentioned above (so as to available to all proposers).

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.

Regards,

Jacob Jett
Assistant Coordinator, Open Annotation Collaboration Project
Center for Informatics Research in Science and Scholarship
The Graduate School of Library and Information Science
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
501 E. Daniel Street, MC-493, Champaign, IL 61820-6211 USA