RE: Work in Progress on a new Annotation Working Group Charter (Advance Notice)

Hi Ivan,

I'm not sure when Annotation WG is planned to start, but it is true that Media Annotation WG might be closed within the next months (after the API has become REC). 

So I agree that it could not be listed a liaison. Nonetheless, the results should be considered in the work of Annotation WG.

Best regards,
Werner

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ivan Herman [mailto:ivan@w3.org]
> Sent: Donnerstag, 06. Februar 2014 10:14
> To: w3c_ac
> Cc: w3c-ac-forum@w3.org; W3C Public Annotation List; Florian Stegmaier
> Subject: Re: Work in Progress on a new Annotation Working Group Charter
> (Advance Notice)
> 
> Werner,
> 
> the information I got was that there is very little chance that the Media
> Annotation WG would still be alive by the time this Annotation WG would start.
> This means that, as I said, listing it as an external liaison seems
> unnecessary, unfortunately...
> 
> Sincerely
> 
> Ivan
> 
> On 05 Feb 2014, at 11:01 , Ivan Herman <ivan@w3.org> wrote:
> 
> > Werner,
> >
> > thanks for the comment. And yes, that WG might be very relevant for this new
> group. However... we have to check whether the group will still be active when
> the this new group will be starting. The related group's section lists active
> groups only...
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Ivan
> >
> > On 05 Feb 2014, at 09:08 , w3c_ac <w3c_ac@joanneum.at> wrote:
> >
> >> Dear Ivan and Doug,
> >>
> >> We expect this work to be a very relevant and useful initiative.
> >>
> >> In the list of related W3C groups, we suggest to add the Media Annotation
> WG [1], which has been working on a basic metadata set for media content on
> the web [2], and a related API [3]. The metadata set has also been formalized
> as an OWL ontology, and the API proposes a JSON representation of the
> metadata. Thus we think that there is potential overlap with the work to be
> addressed by the Annotation WG.
> >>
> >> Best regards,
> >> Werner
> >>
> >> [1] http://www.w3.org/2008/WebVideo/Annotations/
> >> [2] http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/REC-mediaont-10-20120209/
> >> [3] http://www.w3.org/2008/WebVideo/Annotations/drafts/API10/PR2/
> >>
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> >>
> >>> -----Original Message-----
> >>> From: Coralie Mercier [mailto:coralie@w3.org]
> >>> Sent: Dienstag, 04. Februar 2014 12:04
> >>> To: w3c-ac-members@w3.org
> >>> Cc: public-annotation@w3.org
> >>> Subject: Work in Progress on a new Annotation Working Group Charter
> >>> (Advance
> >>> Notice)
> >>>
> >>> Dear Advisory Committee Representative,
> >>>
> >>> This is an advance notice that the Team has started work on a
> >>> charter for a Working Group supporting annotations in Web pages, in
> >>> digital books and magazines, and other types of media on the Web.
> >>>
> >>> Annotating, i.e., the act of creating associations between distinct
> >>> pieces of information, is a widespread activity online in many
> >>> guises but currently lacks a structured approach. Web citizens make
> >>> comments about online resources using either tools built into the
> >>> hosting web site, external web services, or the functionality of an
> annotation client.
> >>> Readers of ebooks use the tools provided by reading systems to add
> >>> and share their thoughts or highlight portions of texts. Comments
> >>> about photos on Flickr, videos on YouTube, audio tracks on
> >>> SoundCloud, people's posts on Facebook, or mentions of resources on
> >>> Twitter could all be considered to be annotations associated with the
> resource being discussed.
> >>>
> >>> The possibility of annotation is essential for many application
> >>> areas. For example, it is standard practice for students to mark up
> >>> their printed textbooks when familiarizing themselves with new
> >>> materials; the ability to do the same with electronic materials
> >>> (e.g., books, journal articles, or
> >>> infographics) is crucial for the advancement of e-learning.
> >>> Submissions of manuscripts for publication by trade publishers or
> >>> scientific journals undergo review cycles involving authors and
> >>> editors or peer reviewers; although the end result of this
> >>> publishing process usually involves Web formats (HTML, XML, etc.),
> >>> the lack of proper annotation facilities for the Web platform makes
> >>> this process unnecessarily complex and time consuming. Communities
> >>> developing specifications jointly, and published, eventually, on the
> >>> Web, need to annotate the documents they produce to improve the efficiency
> of their communication.
> >>>
> >>> There is a large number of closed and proprietary web-based "sticky note"
> >>> and annotation systems offering annotation facilities on the Web or
> >>> as part of ebook reading systems. The primary complaint about these
> >>> is that the user- created annotations cannot be shared, reused in
> >>> another environment, archived, and so on, due to a proprietary
> >>> nature of the environments where they were created. The goal of this
> >>> Working Group is to provide an open approach for annotation, making
> >>> it possible for browsers, reading systems, JavaScript libraries, and
> >>> other tools, to develop an annotation ecosystem where users have
> >>> access to their annotations from various environments, can share those
> annotations, can archive them, and use them how they wish.
> >>>
> >>> The mission of the Annotation Working Group, which we may propose to
> >>> add to the Digital Publishing Activity, is to define a generic data
> >>> model for annotations, and define the basic infrastructural elements
> >>> to make it deployable in browsers and reading systems.
> >>>
> >>> A draft charter is available (this is not a formal review, just an
> >>> early
> >>> draft):
> >>>   https://www.w3.org/2014/01/Ann-charter.html
> >>>
> >>> The goal of this draft is to provide a framework for a public
> >>> discussion on the creation of an annotation working group at w3c. We
> >>> also anticipate getting community perspectives on the scope of this
> >>> proposed charter at a Workshop on Annotation that W3C plans to
> >>> organize in April, co-located with the I Annotate conference in San
> >>> Francisco. The current plan is to finalize the charter soon after
> >>> that event. Once the charter is finalized, it will be reviewed by the
> director and W3M and then sent to you for formal approval.
> >>>
> >>> We welcome your comments and questions as well as general
> >>> expressions of interest and support on <w3c-ac-forum@w3.org>, copied
> >>> to <public- annotation@w3.org> (this is a public mailing list). You
> >>> may also send comments directly to Ivan Herman <ivan@w3.org> or Doug
> Schepers <schepers@w3.org>.
> >>>
> >>> This announcement follows section 6.2.2 of the Process Document:
> >>>
> >>> http://www.w3.org/2005/10/Process-20051014/groups#WGCharterDevelopme
> >>> nt
> >>>
> >>> For Tim Berners-Lee, Director,
> >>> Ralph Swick, Information and Knowledge Domain Lead, Ivan Herman,
> >>> Digital Publishing Activity Lead; Coralie Mercier, W3C
> >>> Communications
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>> Coralie Mercier  -  W3C Communications Team  -  http://www.w3.org
> >>> mailto:coralie@w3.org +336 4322 0001
> >>> http://www.w3.org/People/CMercier/
> >>>
> >>
> >
> >
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> > Digital Publishing Activity Lead
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> >
> 
> 
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> Ivan Herman, W3C
> Digital Publishing Activity Lead
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