Hi everyone,
I'm excited to see this moving forward. Alpheios has a number of
different use cases for annotation - for both producing and consuming
annotations (expecting that the annotations we consume will not always
be from the same set as those we produce). I expect we will make use of
all of the annotator apis that are there right now. I believe our
biggest challenge will be consuming annotations from diverse sources and
trying to match on the selectors when the text which was annotated is
not the exact same as the one to which the annotations are desired to be
applied.
I'm looking forward to having a chance to try out the latest code and
contribute where possible.
Best
Bridget Almas
The Alpheios Project
http://alpheios.net
On 06/13/2018 11:29 AM, Benjamin Young wrote:
Hi all!
First, thanks for being on this list and at least listening in to what happens
here. ^_^ If you'd like to contribute, just click reply--it's an easy way to
start. ;)
Second, I wanted to send an overview of what we've collectively accomplished
over the last couple weeks:
1. Gerben will be joining us as a Committer! There's still some finalizing
to do, but he's more than earned the...responsibility. ;)
https://github.com/apache/incubator-annotator/graphs/contributors
2. I Annotate was fabulous! Gerben, Randall, Jake (see the contributors
link above), and myself were all in attendance and had a great time networking
with various organizations and individuals building stuff with and for
annotation. Some of it was open source, some of it should have been, and yet
more of it is promised to be at some point. Many people expressed interest in
using and even contributing to Apache Annotator, so hopefully that bodes well
for our continued growth. :)
3. The Saturday after I Annotate the same four folks mentioned above got
together for a small Apache Annotator hackathon. Our output includes:
- shipping, pre-release 0.1.0-dev libraries to NPM!
https://www.npmjs.com/org/annotator
- adding a demo to our site! http://annotator.apache.org/
- added Web Annotation JSON-LD document validation to the code base
https://github.com/apache/incubator-annotator#test
- and loads of API planning around how best to handle "all" the types of selectors when
anchoring within the DOM (i.e. "not just text")
<https://www.npmjs.com/org/annotator>
Lastly, I'd love to encourage anyone interested in participating here to say
"hi," tell us about your annotation project, and what you need/want from the
Apache Annotator project libraries and tools.
Thanks again for being here, and we all look forward to your contributions!
Cheers,
Benjamin
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