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:
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> 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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