REST Fest looks great, I'm familiar with Irina Bolychevsky's work. Unfortunately is clashes with something for me.
Happy to add things to the Wiki pending keys :-) On Wed, 26 Apr 2017 at 21:50 Benjamin Young <[email protected]> wrote: > Agree completely! > > > FWIW, I am trying to get the REST Fest conference I co-organize on it's > feet in the UK. It's in Edinburgh this year and might be of interest to > y'all--especially given the re-decentralize keynote topic: > http://2017.restfest.org/uk/ > > > Web Annotation Data Model & Protocol are meant to provide a webby (and > therefore decentralized) method of storing, sharing, and publishing Web > Annotations. > > > I sadly will miss out on this one, but would be honored if all of you went > in my stead. ^_^ And...here's to next year! and other event opportunities! > > > Oh, and if anyone has/knows of annotation related news, events, projects, > etc, I'd love to start keeping track of them on the wiki and get them up to > http://annotator.apache.org/ > > > Ask here if you need keys to the confluence castle. ^_^ > > > Cheers! > > Benjamin > > > -- > > http://bigbluehat.com/ > > http://linkedin.com/in/benjaminyoung > > ________________________________ > From: [email protected] <[email protected]> on behalf > of S Uskudarli <[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2017 4:38:25 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Greetings from an annotation enthusiast in Istanbul > > I have not had a chance to read through yet, but yes yes yes, the trails > project sound wonderful. > > See Benjamin, you simply have to come up with ways of informing us folks in > far away places. I was able to sort of vonbect via hangouts last time and > bugging dinesh. We are here to pay attention, so it on us too. > > > > > On Wednesday, April 26, 2017, Edward Silverton <[email protected]> > wrote: > > 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 > >> > > > >> > > >> > > >
