Open Annotation Community Group Proposed

The Open Annotation Community Group has been proposed:

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The purpose of the Open Annotation Community Group is to work towards a
common, RDF-based, specification for annotating digital resources. The
effort will start by working towards a reconciliation of two proposals
that have emerged over the past two years: the Annotation Ontology [1]
and the Open Annotation Model [2]. Initially, editors of these proposals
will closely collaborate to devise a common draft specification that
addresses requirements and use cases that were identified in the course
of their respective efforts. The goal is to make this draft available
for public feedback and experimentation in the second quarter of 2012.
The final deliverable of the Open Annotation Community Group will be a
specification, published under an appropriate open license, that is
informed by the existing proposals, the common draft specification, and
the community feedback.


[1] http://code.google.com/p/annotation-ontology/
[2] http://www.openannotation.org/spec/beta/

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You are invited to support the creation of this group:
  http://www.w3.org/community/groups/proposed#openannotation

Once the group has a total of five supporters, W3C launch the group
and people can join to begin work.

In order to join the group, you will need a W3C account. To request one:
  http://www.w3.org/community/account/request

If you believe that there is an issue with this group that requires
the attention of the W3C staff, please send us email on
site-comments@w3.org.

Thank you,
W3C Community Development Team

Received on Thursday, 8 December 2011 20:52:36 UTC