Re: Collection of questions

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On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 12:22 AM, Stephen Crawley <[email protected]> wrote:

> I think the answer is "no" to all of Matthew's questions ... unfortunately.
>  The original Annotea group has wound up.  Ralph Swick is still with W3C,
> but no longer interested in in Annotea. I had a short conversation with Ivan
> Herman a few weeks back (face to face!) and the impression I got was that he
> thinks that Annotea is out-dated.  Anyway, he said that there was little
> chance that the W3C Semantic Web group would reactivate this area.  Another
> possiblity is /Marja-Riitta Koivunen/ and her "annotea.org" website.
>  However, the indications are that she is semi-retired at the moment: there
> have been no updates to the site since 2006 and she didn't respond to my
> email.
>
> So I think the most practical solution would be to set up an informal
> working group (independent of W3C) to come up with consensus answers and
> document them.  A Wiki-based group sounds a reasonable approach.  (We might
> be able to host an Annotea Wiki on "http://metadata.net" ... I need to
> check out some issues.)
>

If you need hosting of annotation data then you could use the Talis Platform
(I am CTO at Talis). We have a scheme called Talis Connected Commons which
gives anyone completely free hosting of public domain data up to 50,000,000
triples.  See http://www.talis.com/platform/cc/ for more details.

It would be good to see some annotea data being made more public.

Ian

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<br><div class=3D"gmail_quote">On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 12:22 AM, Stephen Cra=
wley <span dir=3D"ltr">&lt;<a href=3D"mailto:[email protected]">uqscrawl@u=
q.edu.au</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=
=3D"border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; p=
adding-left: 1ex;">
<div><div></div>I think the answer is &quot;no&quot; to all of Matthew&#39;=
s questions ... unfortunately. =A0The original Annotea group has wound up. =
=A0Ralph Swick is still with W3C, but no longer interested in in Annotea. I=
 had a short conversation with Ivan Herman a few weeks back (face to face!)=
 and the impression I got was that he thinks that Annotea is out-dated. =A0=
Anyway, he said that there was little chance that the W3C Semantic Web grou=
p would reactivate this area. =A0Another possiblity is /Marja-Riitta Koivun=
en/ and her &quot;<a href=3D"http://annotea.org" target=3D"_blank">annotea.=
org</a>&quot; website. =A0However, the indications are that she is semi-ret=
ired at the moment: there have been no updates to the site since 2006 and s=
he didn&#39;t respond to my email.<br>
</div>
<br>
So I think the most practical solution would be to set up an informal worki=
ng group (independent of W3C) to come up with consensus answers and documen=
t them. =A0A Wiki-based group sounds a reasonable approach. =A0(We might be=
 able to host an Annotea Wiki on &quot;<a href=3D"http://metadata.net" targ=
et=3D"_blank">http://metadata.net</a>&quot; ... I need to check out some is=
sues.)<br>

</blockquote><div><br>If you need hosting of annotation data then you could=
 use the Talis Platform (I am CTO at Talis). We have a scheme called Talis =
Connected Commons which gives anyone completely free hosting of public doma=
in data up to 50,000,000 triples.=A0 See <a href=3D"http://www.talis.com/pl=
atform/cc/">http://www.talis.com/platform/cc/</a> for more details.<br>
<br>It would be good to see some annotea data being made more public.<br></=
div></div><br>Ian<br>

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