2. Hi
• aka BigBlueHat
• Work for John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
• Co-Editor of the W3C Web Annotation Data Model & Vocabulary
• Co-Chair of the upcoming W3C JSON-LD Working Group
• Contributor to the W3C Web Publishing Working Group
• Core Committer at Apache Annotator
4. Standards
• Open Annotation Community Group
Open Annotation Data Model
• Web Annotation Working Group
Web Annotation Data Model
Web Annotation Vocabulary
Web Annotation Protocol
Selectors and States Note
Web Annotations in HTML Note
• Digital Publishing Interest Group
Digital Publishing Use Cases and Requirements
• Web Publishing Working Group
Web Annotation Extensions for Web Publication
Web Publication
(eventually) EPUB 4
(possibly) Packaged Web Publications
5. Standards
• IIIF
Uses Open Annotation for image…annotation
• EPUB 3
Open Annotation for EPUB
• Microsoft’s proposal for “annotations for ARIA”
Maps Web Annotation to ARIA attributes
continued
6. Source
• Annotator.js
• Hypothes.is
• Randall Leed’s Libraries (official name)
dom-anchor-*
• Web Annotation WG Selectors and States code
• Apache Annotator
(in-progress) DOM-focused selector juggler
(eventual) home of Randall Leed’s Libraries
(future) Web Annotation Protocol Server
(future) Web Annotation Validators
7. Software
& Services
• Hypothes.is
Public service
Partner installs
• Wiley Information Model
Open Annotation for editorial workflows
• WorldBrain.io
• WebMemex.org
• dokie.li
• Tell me about yours!
9. Struggles
• The Frightful Five
Few, increasingly powerful orgs have final say
• Productized Self
Who owns you / your content?
• Fake news
• Trolling
• Lack of diversity
In process
In voice
In visibility
In conversation
10. Structural
Solutions
• Conway’s Law
“organizations which design systems … are
constrained to produce designs which are copies of
the communication structures of these
organizations.”
• Centralization
• Decentralization
• Federation
• Shared Standards
• Shared Source
• Shared Stability
11. Sample
Structures
• Web Annotation Working Group
“closed”—which means we did it!
• Open Annotation Community Group
Open to anyone interested in annotation
And future work on any related Web specs
• Web Publishing Working Group
“active”—join today! See me in the hallway.
Open to any W3C Member organization
• Apache Annotator
Open to anyone interested in contributing to code
or content about Web Annotations
Current focus is DOM selection integration
• The Hypothesis Project
Talk to Jon, Heather, Dan, etc.
available now!
12. Standards
& Source
Solutions
• Hypothes.is
• Apache Annotator
• Verifiable Credentials Working Group
• Credentials Community Group
Decentralized Identifier Documents
Self-sovereign Identities
• ActivityStreams
• ActivityPub
Mastadon
PeerTube
13. Summary
• What about your own organization?
• What structure best matches your desired
software structure?
• Plan for failure
• Fail with purpose
• Find friends
• Contribute to the Creation of Collective
Commentary Constructs!!