Understand about schedule conflicts...so many of those in May.
If you haven't yet, sign-up for an account on the wiki: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/signup.action <https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/ANNO/Demos>And then let me know your username there. I'll do the rest! ^_^ -- http://bigbluehat.com/ http://linkedin.com/in/benjaminyoung ________________________________ From: Edward Silverton <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2017 5:48:13 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Greetings from an annotation enthusiast in Istanbul 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 > >> > > > >> > > >> > > >
