Hi all,
Mia sent out a tweet based on this thread, which I caught wind of, and I thought I'd join the discussion. Pardon for barging in.
I'm a principal with the Hypothes.is Project mentioned earlier in this thread, and also working with folks (Rob Sanderson notably) involved in the IIIF effort.
The Open Annotation community is very much alive, and since the W3 charted the Web Annotation Working Group last August, all work has transitioned within that framework. Rob is the co-chair of that working group along with Frederick Hirsch (formerly of Nokia).
A first public working draft of the spec is now available (complete with annotations-- see the Hypothes.is sidebar at right) http://www.w3.org/TR/2014/WD-annotation-model-20141211/
We are very much committed to supporting the standard as it evolves and we have 3-4 members of our team that regularly participate in the Wednesday progress calls. I'm not sure that any projects are completely supporting it at present, since it's been evolving rapidly. But there are many who will shortly, including ourselves.
Our efforts are focused in two areas:
1- Building a general purpose annotator. An early alpha extension is available on our home page. But it's also embeddable on web pages (see the w3.org site above) and can be delivered via a proxy service. Such as here:
https://via.hypothes.is/h/https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=ind1502&L=mcg&F=&S=&X=B9AB26AC6A58C8BCE7&P=31862
2- Delivering an annotation framework that others can use to build annotation applications. AnnotatorJS is currently undergoing considerable work, and a new 2.0 version will be out by the end of April. The goal is to make it easy to build annotation applications in the browser that are standards compliant.
https://github.com/openannotation/annotator
Last year we were awarded a grant to bring annotation to the Digital Humanities.
https://hypothes.is/blog/award-andrew-w-mellon-foundation/
We'd be delighted to know how we can be of service to the community here.
Dan
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