I wanted to bring this working draft to the attention of folks working on various HCLSIG Tasks:
http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-swbp-image-annotation-20060322/ This could prove very useful regarding the proposed Brain Atlas work, as well as more general microscopy applications. They do not explicitly mention the Open Microscopy Environment (OME, http://www.openmicroscopy.org/), but it is probably relevant to them and us as well. cheers, Eric