Many Web portals allow users to associate additional information with existing multimedia resources such as images, audio, and video. However, these portals are usually closed systems and user-generated annotations are almost always kept locked up and remain inaccessible to the Web of Data. We believe that an important step to take is the integration of multimedia annotations and the Linked Data principles. We present the current state of the Open Annotation Model, explain our design rationale, and describe how the model can represent user annotations on multimedia Web resources. Applying this model in Web portals and devices, which support user annotations, should allow clients to easily publish and consume, thus exchange annotations on multimedia Web resources via common Web standards.
@cite_24: This paper provides a comprehensive study on annotations by defining their contours and complexity. This work adds a new complementary approach to the usual case and user studies, and also investigates history in order to benefit from previous knowledge and our cultural heritage. This study emphasizes an aspect which has never previously been taken into account: the temporal dimension involved in annotations. Moreover, it discusses both the notion of hypertext between documents and annotations and the idea of annotations as context for documents. The study gives the necessary historical and cultural background to derive a set of key features of annotations that must be taken into account when designing systems that have to support the management of digital annotations on digital contents.
@cite_30: Scholars in the Humanities have been far less engaged in the adoption of digital methods to support their research than what already committed practitioners in the Digital Humanities (DH) have expected. The author of this article claims that one reason for this is that the digital technologies and tools promoted by the DH community work (including the provision of digital resources delivered to the user by the WWW) connect only with a part of what humanities scholarship is all about: reading of many documents, responding to that reading, analysing and developing a personal interpretation of these materials, and the publication of this interpretation. Pliny is prototype software that explores what a tool would be like that supported humanities scholarship in more of its aspects. It is a desktop application that integrates with the World Wide Web, and provides functions that support all the aspects of scholarship outlined above. This article describes Pliny’s design and explains why we have designed it in the way that it is.
Annotations have a long research history, and unsurprisingly the research perspectives and interpretations of what an is supposed to be vary widely. @cite_24 provide a comprehensive study on the contours and complexity of annotations. A representative discussion on how annotations can be used in various scholarly disciplines is given by Bradley @cite_30 . He describes how annotations can support interpretation development by collecting notes, classifying resources, and identifying novel relationships between resources.