Maybe they will be inspired by some ideas of your head mounted camera during iAnnotate ;-) See, I am such a good example.
On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 4:53 PM, Benjamin Young <[email protected]> wrote: > So great to have you here, Suzan! > > > Your input and ideas will be helpful in the coming year. > > > To those also on this list, I'd love to hear a basic write-up from each of > you (if you'd like). Suzan set a good example. ^_^ > > > "Community over code" being a key component of The Apache Way. :D > > > Thanks again, Suzan! > > Benjamin > > > -- > > http://bigbluehat.com/ > > http://linkedin.com/in/benjaminyoung > > ________________________________ > From: Suzan Uskudarli <[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2017 9:43:18 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Greetings from an annotation enthusiast in Istanbul > > Hi, > > My name is Susan Uskudarli. I work at Bogazici University as a faculty > member in Computer Engineering dept (we don't really have CS dept in > Turkey, it is more like a CS dept). > > I teach the mandatory undergrad courses on software engineering (yep, > students love me >:) ), also grad courses on coopreation technologies and > social semantic web. I am highly interested in cooperative and > collaborative technologies. > > I have been working with T B Dinesh, (who has been active and an advocate > of annotations) for a long time on hobby projects. Hobbies meaning things I > really care about, which I imagine is a shared experience by all. > > In the last couple of years I have had my students work on projects that > included the Web Annotation Data Model (even way before it reached its RC > level). They are to implement projects including annotations. They learn a > lot. I enjoy exploring the creativity and utility of annotations with them. > I wish some of their projects were up, but as with many projects, the DB > vanishes and nothing works after they leave. > > This semester I have some students working on cultural heritage with > annotations as well as a some other crowdsourcing projects that rely on > annotations. I think annotations are fantastic for learning and exploring. > By trying to design systems that use them, they can't prevent being exposed > to its benefits. Although it takes them a really long time. You would think > they would have better abstraction skills :) I will share any experience > that results from there. > > I hope to find some time this summer to do a bit of prototyping myself. I > am very interested in the community related applications of annotations as > well as semantic annotations. > > Very best to you all. I look forward to all the good things that are going > to emerge from here. I should say continue to emerge. > > --s >
