Library Cataloging
The W3C has published the Open Annotation Core Data Model.
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Library Cataloging
Open Annotation Core Data Model
The W3C has published the Open Annotation Core Data Model.
Annotating, the act of creating associations between distinct pieces of information, is a pervasive activity online in many guises but lacks a structured approach. Web citizens make comments about online resources using either tools built in to the hosting web site, external web services, or the functionality of an annotation client. Comments about photos on Flickr, videos on YouTube, people's posts on Facebook, or mentions of resources on Twitter could all be considered as annotations associated with the resource being discussed. In addition, there a plethora of closed and proprietary web-based "sticky note" systems, and stand-alone multimedia annotation systems. The primary complaint about all of these systems is that the user created annotations cannot be shared or reused, due to a deliberate "lock-in" strategy within the environments where they were created, or at the very least the lack of a common approach to expressing the annotations.Seen on Digital Koans.
The Open Annotation data model provides an extensible, interoperable framework for expressing annotations such that they 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.
- Digital Library Tool
News from the National Science Digital Library.NSDL EduPak 1.0: An Open Source Digital Library Services Platform for Education National educational organizations and institutions focused on establishing specialized digital collections, conducting educational...
- Ims Resource List Interoperability
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- Ontolog
OntoLog is a tool for annotating (describing and indexing) video and audio using ontologies - structured sets of terms or concepts. It used RDF and the Dublin Core. This is a PH. D. project by Jon Heggland. He is looking for testers and users.For OntoLog...
- Ontologies
The latest issue of Information Research has the article "A literature-based approach to annotation and browsing of Web resources" by Miguel A. Sicilia, Elena Garcia, Ignacio Aedo, and Paloma Diaz.The emerging Semantic Web technologies critically depend...
- Resource Description Framework
The RDF Primer is an introduction to this possibly important standard."The Resource Description Framework (RDF) is a general-purpose language for representing information in the World Wide Web. It is particularly intended for representing metadata about...