Persistent Annotations Deserve New URIsAbdulla Alasaadiaalasaad@cs.odu.eduMichael L. Nelsonmln@cs.odu.eduOld Dominion UniversityJCDL 2011Ottawa, CanadaJune 15, 2011This work supported in part by NSF IIS-1009392.1
IntroductionAn annotation can be described as a relation between different resources with different media types like text, image, audio, or video.2http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_2ASHdLrOGi0/TNmzuwr3kKI/AAAAAAAAAzI/Y91p52Huq3s/s1600/elephant-tusks-460_1016757c-739042.jpghttp://bioweb.uwlax.edu/bio203/s2007/shahrach/map.JPG
GoalsA unique URI for every annotation.Persistent annotations and resources.Annotate specific part of media. Keep track of the resources. Present annotation in browser.Meet the OAC model requirements.3
OAC Model4oac: Annotationrdf:type ex:Annooac:hasTargetoac:hasBody ex:Africaex:TuskOAC introduces a new resource that creates the relationship between the body and target.
Annotation Example5http://bit.ly/g55gvDhttp://bioweb.uwlax.edu/bio203/s2007/shahrach/map.JPG
The example in the baseline OAC modelhttp://128.82.5.41:8080/RDF/344.rdfhttp://bit.ly/g55gvDhttp://bioweb.uwlax.edu/bio203/s2007/shahrach/map.JPGOAC specifies the relations between resources.
Describes the annotation.6
W3C Media Fragments7http://bioweb.uwlax.edu/bio203/s2007/shahrach/map.png#xywh=100,200,360,260
 Suppose we want to identify a non-rectangular region?Media fragment specification does not support non-rectangular shapes.SVG technology allows users to select particular parts of the images of any shape.
Annotation’s URI8http://128.82.5.41:8080/cgi-bin/retrieve.py?svg=334http://bit.ly/i2AfwNThe generated URIs are long.
The annotating service shorten the Long URIs using Bit.ly API.
Easier to share, and collect statistics.
More URIs !.Annotation’s resourcesResources may:Move   [location]Change [updated] Disappear .9Each resource has an archived copy.
More URIs !How to manage all these URIs?Annotation:
http://128.82.5.41:8080/RDF/344.rdf
http://bit.ly/kZO9m4
http://www.webcitation.org/5zQhYKTtg
Target:
http://bioweb.uwlax.edu/bio203/s2007/shah_rach/map.JPG
http://www.webcitation.org/5zQi6eUow

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Editor's Notes

  • #16 SVG used Easy to create an annotation with different resources, XML -> RDF Supported by ALL major Browsers.Indexable, we can find the annotation or part of the annotation in the search results of the search engines.Amny resources ! -> Resource Maps.