Discussing linguistic annotation on the web at LDK-2021?

Dear all,

as a possibility to channel some of our on-going discussions on linguistic  
annotation in the context of LD4LT and Nexus Linguarum, there would be a  
possibility to organize a meeting or discussion round at the Language,  
Data and Knowledge conference (LDK-2021), June 14-16 in Zaragoza, Spain.  
Formally, that would have to be submitted as a workshop  
(http://2021.ldk-conf.org/call-for-workshops-and-tutorials/), but we can  
let it take the form of a panel, or a general discussion, much alike the  
Face-to-Face meetings of the OntoLex W3C we had in Leiden 2018 and in  
Leipzig 2019, but maybe just half-day. So, there would be an agenda, the  
possibility for doing presentations, and broad possibilities for  
discussion, but there would be no call for papers.

Even though it is not clear whether this would be an on-site event,  
partially virtual or fully virtual, it would be a nice chance to elicit  
and discuss positions on linguistic annotation, use cases and persectives  
of the annotation harmonization endeavour. I think we could accommodate  
very different kinds of contributions, ranging from presentations on  
latest developments in data models and their applications over background  
presentations on NIF and Web Annotation, to focused discussions of  
features and functionalities required from community standards for  
linguistic annotation on the web. In either way, a chunk of time should be  
set aside for discussing perspectives and goals. However, in order to have  
a focused discussion, I would prefer not to do a regular workshop with an  
open call for papers, but a concerted event.

If there is interest in any of this by a number of people as either  
contributors and co-organizers or attendants (virtual or f2f), please get  
back to me (in private or via the mailing list) in the next two days. I  
would then coordinate drafting the proposal (due Dec 6th). I personally  
think there is benefit in the idea. Even in case it might eventually  
become a fully virtual event, it's significantly different from our telcos  
by simply having an in-depth, structured discussion of different aspects  
over several hours, and one that also allows us to elaborate a little bit  
more on the background of all of this. (Yes, the area is very much plagued  
by acronyms. Apologies for staying with that practice too often ;)

As for the agenda, I would expect that we do, say, 90 minutes of  
background presentations on existing vocabularies (NIF, WA, non-RDF models  
[ISO, TEI], others?), a 30+ min summary of the current discussion, 45+ min  
of brief presentations of use cases and/or position statements and/or  
experiences and then a 45+ minutes general discussion. This could then be  
a half-day event (4h). Any feedback welcome.

Thanks a lot,
Christian

Received on Wednesday, 2 December 2020 12:36:28 UTC