Re: Annotating All Knowledge Coalition

Thanks Doug for this info. I was mostly away from 'always online' location
over the last month and now catching up a bit.

Firstly, its great that a coalition this large is looking at annotation
seriously with people from this group to provide inputs regarding w3c work.

On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 3:11 AM, Doug Schepers <schepers@w3.org> wrote:

> Hey, folks–
>
> Let's congratulate Dan Whaley and Hypothes.is for launching the new
> Annotating All Knowledge coalition [1], an initiative for promoting and
> enabling annotation in scholarly publishing!
>

I would like to flag a concern the words in this sentence seem to raise.
It is the implication that "All knowledge" is what we have with "scholarly
publishing" of today.
Since we are looking into the scenario of diversity in literacy ( see
j.mp/cowlick-works ; also the discussions related to Wikipedia India that
lacks references to scholarly work that you maybe aware of ), I feel that
there is a need to mention this concern here.

On the other hand, we are indeed looking into annotation as the means to
get these different worlds connected.


> There are over 40 members, and growing, including Web Annotation WG
> participants Wiley and IDPF (and W3C).
>
>
more on this as I catch up on the articles,
-dinesh


> There's an excellent write-up in Nature News [2] (which is a pretty big
> deal, in my opinion!) that includes a mention of the WG, both online and in
> print, and a nice compilation video [3] that captures some worthy
> sentiments about openness in publishing, science, and standards.
>
> Dan blogged about the creation of the coalition [4], and I also blogged
> from the W3C perspective about some technical and standards aspects [5].
>
> This is a great opportunity for us to reach a wider audience, more visibly.
>
> Thanks to the Hypothes.is folks for pulling this together!
>
> [1] https://hypothes.is/annotating-all-knowledge/
> [2]
> http://www.nature.com/news/annotating-the-scholarly-web-1.18900?WT.mc_id=TWT_NatureNews
> [3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XBBWD1OjPw
> [4] https://hypothes.is/blog/a-coalition-of-over-40-scholarly-publishers/
> [5] https://www.w3.org/blog/2015/12/annotation-coalition-launched/
>
> Regards–
> –Doug
>
>