2013/04/24 by Robert Sanderson, Sanderson, Robert, Paolo Ciccarese +3 · 1 citation
Computer Science · #Digital Libraries (cs.DL) #FOS: Computer and information sciences #H.5.4 #cs.DL
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1304.6709
10 pages, 13 figures, accepted to ACM Conference on Web Science 2013
arxiv created 2013/04/24 · arxiv updated 2013/04/25
The Open Annotation Core Data Model specifies an interoperable framework for creating associations between related resources, called annotations, using a methodology that conforms to the Architecture of the World Wide Web. Open Annotations can easily be shared between platforms, with sufficient richness of expression to satisfy complex requirements while remaining simple enough to also allow for the most common use cases, such as attaching a piece of text to a single web resource. This paper presents the W3C Open Annotation Community Group specification and the rationale behind the scoping and technical decisions that were made. It also motivates interoperable Annotations via use cases, and provides a brief analysis of the advantages over previous specifications.