No chance I'm afraid! I'm based in the UK - just got back from a trip to California too :-)
Glad to hear you're interested in trails, would be great to see if there's any overlap with our mutual projects. On 26 Apr 2017 8:32 pm, "Benjamin Young" <[email protected]> wrote: > Trails sounds amazing, Ed! > > > What are the chances you'll be at http://iannotate.org/ next week? ^_^ > > > -- > > http://bigbluehat.com/ > > http://linkedin.com/in/benjaminyoung > > ________________________________ > From: Edward Silverton <[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2017 1:07:35 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Greetings from an annotation enthusiast in Istanbul > > Hi Suzan, > > I'm involved in a couple of annotation-related projects that may interest > you. > > Regarding the DB vanishing: I'm working with the IPFS team (http://ipfs.io > ) > on a project to allow decentralised real time annotation between IIIF > viewers: https://github.com/ipfs/notes/issues/240 > > This should allow annotations to be easily persisted beyond any single > database boundary. > > I've also developed a proposal for creating "trails" of content using the > Web Annotation Data Model: https://github.com/memex/trails-proposal > > The idea here is to allow presentations/documentaries to be remixed and > repurposed. > > Regards, > > Ed > > On Wed, 26 Apr 2017 at 15:24 Benjamin Young <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Ha! Yeah...I should at least write-up what happens. I did post here about > > the event, and would love to know if others are going! > > > > > > Happy Wednesday, everybody, > > > > Benjamin > > > > > > -- > > > > http://bigbluehat.com/ > > > > http://linkedin.com/in/benjaminyoung > > > > ________________________________ > > From: Suzan Uskudarli <[email protected]> > > Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2017 10:01:58 AM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: Greetings from an annotation enthusiast in Istanbul > > > > 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 > > > > > >
