Re: Web Annotation Working Group Charter Approved; join the Web Annotation Working Group (Call for Participation)

Is this applicable to semantic search?

-Brent Shambaugh

Website: bshambaugh.org


On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 6:09 AM, Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com>
wrote:

> FYI: could be an interesting way to write annotations to the web at the
> document or data level
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Michel Dumontier <michel.dumontier@stanford.edu>
> Date: 21 August 2014 04:49
> Subject: Fwd: Web Annotation Working Group Charter Approved; join the Web
> Annotation Working Group (Call for Participation)
> To: "public-lod@w3.org" <public-lod@w3.org>, w3c semweb hcls <
> public-semweb-lifesci@w3.org>, sadi-discuss@googlegroups.com, bio2rdf <
> bio2rdf@googlegroups.com>
>
>
> FYI,
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Coralie Mercier <coralie@w3.org>
> Date: Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 10:48 AM
> Subject: Web Annotation Working Group Charter Approved; join the Web
> Annotation Working Group (Call for Participation)
> To: w3c-ac-forum@w3.org
>
>
>
> Dear Advisory Committee Representative,
>
> The Director is pleased to announce the approval of the Web Annotation
> Working Group charter:
>   https://www.w3.org/annotation/charter/
>
> This group is chartered until 1 October 2016.
>
> The mission of the Web Annotation Working Group, part of 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 through suitable user
> interfaces.
>
> Use this form to join the group; the form will also instruct you how
> to nominate participants:
>   https://www.w3.org/2004/01/pp-impl/73180/join
>
> The Working Group chairs are Rob Sanderson (Stanford University) and
> Frederick Hirsch (Nokia). The Team contacts are Doug Schepers and Ivan
> Herman for a total of 0.20 FTE.
>
> More information on the Web Annotation Working Group can be found on
> its homepage:
>   http://www.w3.org/annotation/
>
>
> ------
> Results of Call for Review
> ------
> In response to the 15 July 2014 Call for Review:
>   https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/w3c-ac-members/2014JulSep/0008.html
>
> Some reviewers proposed minor changes to the charter, but all of them
> accepted the charter as is in case their call for changes were not
> accepted. There was also one abstention.
>
> The detailed disposition of comments is at:
>   http://www.w3.org/2014/08/AnnotationDispComments.html
>
>
> This announcement follows section 8.1.2 of the W3C Process Document:
>    http://www.w3.org/2014/Process-20140801/#ACReviewAfter
>
> and the Call for Participation follows section 6.2.4 of the W3C Process
> Document:
>     http://www.w3.org/2014/Process-20140801/#cfp
>
>
> Thank you,
>
> For Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Director, and
> Ivan Herman, W3C Digital Publishing Activity Lead and Staff Contact,
> Doug Schepers, Staff Contact,
> Coralie Mercier, W3C Communications
>
>
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>  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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