W3C Releases First Public Working Draft of Web Annotation Data Model

New online from the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).

The Web Annotation Working Group has published a First Public Working Draft of Web Annotation Data Model.
Annotations are typically used to convey information about a resource or associations between resources. Simple examples include a comment or tag on a single web page or image, or a blog post about a news article.
The Web Annotation Data Model specification describes a structured model and format to enable annotations to be shared and reused across different hardware and software platforms. Common use cases can be modeled in a manner that is simple and convenient, while at the same time enabling more complex requirements, including linking arbitrary content to a particular data point or to segments of timed multimedia resources.
The specification provides both a conceptual model that accommodates these use cases, and the vocabulary of terms that represents it. A specific JSON format is recommended for ease of creation and consumption of the annotations.

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See Also:  Video: Experts Share Perspectives on Web Annotation (November 19, 2014)

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