1. iAnnotate 2014
Building a community to enable the annotation of the
world’s knowledge

2. Annotation
the practice and the result of
adding a note or gloss to a
text, which may include
highlights or underlining,
comments, footnotes, tags,
and links

3. PeerLibrary: What comes
after open access?
• Open Scholarship
• Knowledge Layer
• Accessible Science
• Social Annotation!
• Real-time Collaboration

4. Open Annotation Data
Model
• Consider a variety of use cases
• Consider edge cases
• Consider extensibility

5. Annotation
• Set of connected resources
• Body
• Target
• Body related to Target
• Nature of this relationship
changes according to the
intention of the annotation

6. iAnnotate conference format
• Succession of short talks (30
over 2 days)
• Open Space sessions from
2pm
• Hack days

7. Annotation who’s who
• hypothes.is (Dan Whaley, Peter Brantley & Randall Leeds)
• W3C (Doug Schepers & Ivan Herman)
• Open Knowledge Foundation (Nick Stenning)
• UC Berkeley, Stanford, Harvard, MIT
• RapGenius, Logos Bible Software
• ArXiv, AGU
• http://iannotate.org/2014/attendees.html

8. annotator.js
• Open Source Javascript library (https://github.com/
openannotation/annotator/)
• Based on open standards effort in the W3C’s Open
Annotation community working group
• Allows annotation of text, images and more

9. eLife
• Pre-publication enhancement of peer review
processes
• Design workshop
• A new ALM (Alexander Garcia - NanoTweets.com)
• What is interesting in the paper?
• What are the hot topics in the paper?
• The conversation is the aggregator

10. Shared values
• Lots of github accounts
• Lots of sharing of experiences
• Common aims

11. Links
• http://iannotate.org/2014/
• http://hypothes.is/
• http://www.w3.org/2014/04/annotation/