2011-03-25: OAC Phase II Workshop Trip Report

I've just finished attending the Open Annotation Collaboration (OAC) Phase II Workshop in Chicago, IL (March 24-25, 2011). The quality of the presentations was very high and I was surprised at how much the OAC community has grown in a relatively short time. Although I've served on OAC technical review panels before and my student, Abdulla Alasaadi, has worked on a small prototype (to be presented at JCDL 2011 ) for using SVG instead of the W3C Media Fragments for specifying an annotation target, I haven't been keeping up with the OAC community as closely as I should. The Workshop has all the presentations online , as well as a wiki that contains various commentary, use cases, etc. (also, the hash tag is " #oacwkshp "). Although all of the presentations generated a lot of discussion from the attendees, the presentations that I learned the most from were: Annotation Supporting Collaborative Development of Scholarly Editions ( Jane Hunter and Anna Gerbe