Hi,

I was advised to repost this as many list members were at the
conference last week.



The W3C Open Annotation Community Group
<http://www.w3.org/community/openannotation/> is pleased to announce
three public meetings introducing the Open Annotation Data Model
Community Specification.

The Open Annotation Core Data Model
<http://www.openannotation.org/spec/core/> specifies an interoperable
framework for creating associations between related resources, i.e.,
annotations, using a methodology that conforms to the Architecture of
the World Wide Web. Open Annotations can easily be shared between
platforms, with sufficient richness of expression to satisfy complex
requirements while remaining simple enough to also allow for the most
common use cases, such as attaching a piece of text to a single web
resource.

These day-long public roll-outs, carried out in concert with the
Annotation Ontology and the Open Annotation Collaboration, and made
possible by generous funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation,
will inform digital humanities and sciences computing developers,
curators of digital collections and scholars using digital content
about the W3C Open Annotation Community Group’s work.

Participants will learn about the data model's core features and
advanced modules through tutorials, a showcase of existing
implementations, Q&A sessions with community implementers and live
demonstrations.

Topics will include:

* The Open Annotation Data Model
* The W3C Open Annotation Community Group
* Existing implementations
* Developer tools & resources

There is no registration fee, but space is limited, so you must
register to reserve a spot. Rollout times and locations:

* U.S. West Coast Rollout – 09 April 2013 at Stanford University
----- Registration:
<https://www.eventville.com/Catalog/EventRegistration1.asp?Eventid=1010270>

* U.S. East Coast Rollout – 06 May 2013 at the University of Maryland
----- Registration:
<https://www.eventville.com/Catalog/EventRegistration1.asp?Eventid=1010271>

* U.K. Rollout – 24 June 2013 at the University of Manchester
----- Registration:
<https://www.eventville.com/Catalog/EventRegistration1.asp?Eventid=1010272>

RSVP for a rollout near you using one of the links above.

For more information and individual agendas, see:
<http://www.openannotation.org/RolloutInfo.html>


Regards,

Jacob





_____________________________________________________
Jacob Jett
Visiting Project Coordinator
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
(217) 244-2164
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On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 9:52 AM, Jacob Jett <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm new to this list.
>
> I'm the project coordinator for the Open Annotation Collaboration
> research project based at the University of Illinois at
> Urbana-Champaign. This project has been working in collaboration with
> similar projects such as the Harvard-based Annotation Ontology project
> to develop an RDF-based data model for digital annotation tools
> supporting interoperable annotations. The 1.0 production ready version
> of this specification, Open Annotation 1.0, has just been published.
>
> We are announcing three public meetings introducing the Open
> Annotation Data Model Community Specification. These day-long public
> rollouts, carried out in concert with the Annotation Ontology and the
> Open Annotation Community Group
> (http://www.w3.org/community/openannotation/), and made possible by
> generous funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, will inform
> digital humanities and sciences computing developers, curators of
> digital collections and scholars using digital content about the W3C
> Open Annotation Community Group’s work.
>
> Participants will learn about the data model's core features and
> advanced modules through tutorials, a showcase of existing
> implementations, Q&A sessions with community implementers and live
> demonstrations. Topics will include:
> •       The Open Annotation Data Model,
> •       The W3C Open Annotation Community Group,
> •       Existing implementations,
> •       Developer tools & resources.
>
> Rollout times and places:
> •       U.S. West Coast Rollout – 09 April 2013 at Stanford University
> (RSVP - https://www.eventville.com/Catalog/EventRegistration1.asp?Eventid=1010270)
> •       U.S. East Coast Rollout – 06 May 2013 at the University of
> Maryland (RSVP -
> https://www.eventville.com/Catalog/EventRegistration1.asp?Eventid=1010271)
> •       U.K. Rollout – 24 June 2013 at the University of Manchester
> (RSVP - https://www.eventville.com/Catalog/EventRegistration1.asp?Eventid=1010272)
>
> There is no registration fee but RSVP (online) is required. RSVP for a
> rollout near you using one of the links above or by visiting:
> http://www.openannotation.org/RolloutInfo.html
>
> You can learn further information about the W3C Open Annotation
> Community Group and the Open Annotation Collaboration by visiting:
>
> http://www.w3.org/community/openannotation/
> http://openannotation.org
>
> Regards,
>
> Jacob
>
>
> _____________________________________________________
> Jacob Jett
> Visiting Project Coordinator
> 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
> (217) 244-2164
> [log in to unmask]