I know the Pelagios project has looked at OAC in the past, and I assume
they or their partners are still using it. They've also got an older (2011)
blog post summarising 'Growing use of OAC' which might have some useful
pointers:
http://pelagios-project.blogspot.co.uk/2011/11/growing-use-of-oac-inventory-no-doubt.html
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On 13 February 2015 at 21:03, Paul Vetch <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Hi Richard (and Andrew)
>
> The ResearchSpace project at the British Museum developed an image
> annotation tool which implements OpenAnnotation quite some time ago, though
> I’m not sure whether it’s available to see or reuse yet. Dominic Oldman is
> the man who will know and I’m he’ll pipe up as and when he sees this!
>
> Also, see Wellcome Digital Library’s open source ‘Player’ -
> https://github.com/wellcomelibrary/player <
> https://github.com/wellcomelibrary/player> - which implements IIIF, and
> could presumably therefore be extended to support OpenAnnotation. I was
> going to suggest this to Andrew in response to his original query actually
> since the viewer is perfect for navigating digitised documents.
>
> In general terms my sense is that there’s still a good head of steam
> behind OpenAnnotation.
>
> All best
>
> Paul
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> > On 13 Feb 2015, at 19:38, Ben Rubinstein <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >
> > On 13/02/2015 18:19, Richard Light wrote:
> >> I've been looking into annotation frameworks, specifically the (quite)
> new
> >> combined W3C Open Annotation initiative [1]. This promises a future
> where we
> >> can treat annotations as part of the Linked Data web. There appear to
> be a
> >> number of academic projects which have tackled this framework at various
> >> levels of practicality [2], and as a result there is some software
> around
> >> [3]. However, I get a sense that this was all a couple of years ago,
> and
> >> maybe the energy levels are dropping ... ?
> >>
> >> Is there interest within the group in being able to annotate both
> marked-up
> >> texts and page images, adding comments, interpretations, subject
> keywords,
> >> Linked Data identifiers etc. to them, and to do so at web scale (i.e.
> >> transcending our individual databases/web sites)? Any successes to
> report, or
> >> cautionary tales to share?
> >
> > Hi Richard,
> >
> > I have no successes, tales, or frankly knowledge! to share... but a
> pointer that the IIIF team are very committed to supporting OpenAnnotation,
> and my impression both from their session at MCN last November and from
> lurking on their discussion list is this that this is indeed a live issue
> for them, with energy levels high.
> >
> > Might be worth asking your last question on that list?
> >
> > best
> >
> > Ben
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