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Update on Annotating

All Knowledge Coalition

Maryann E. Martone

Hypothes.is

UCSD

#AAKCoalition

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What is the coalition?

A growing group of publishers, platforms, libraries, standards bodies and technology groups that share a common interest in bringing an interoperable annotation capability across scholarly content for the benefit of scientists, humanists, students, teachers and citizens.

https://hypothes.is/annotating-all-knowledge/

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The Vision

Within three years, most scholarly works -- books, articles and other digital media, new and old -- will come with the capability for readers to create, share, and discover annotations from colleagues, authors, friends and experts around the globe.

This technology will be open source, federated, and based on open standards.

Just like the Web.

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What is an “interoperable annotation capability”

Annotation should be like email or web pages:

-Multiple servers and clients

-Shared set of features

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Why interoperable annotation for scholarship?

Use cases:

As a user of academic content I want to pull back search results and annotate both the search results and also each of the articles/abstracts in that search, and then export my annotations in a compatible format to work with the packages that I work within

As a publisher, I want authenticated, blinded reviewers to review articles using annotations. I want to pass reviews on along with the article even if I reject the article.

I am reading a scientific article in Pub Med Central and annotating it; my colleague is reading the same article at the publisher's website and annotating it. I get a notification that there are others annotating the same article and I have a means to view them where I am, with the client I am using.”

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Members

Over 60 publishers, platforms, standards bodies and technology organizations.

(Join us!)

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Members agree that

  1. We share the vision for how this can benefit scholarship.
  2. We will explore how to incorporate web annotations into our [platform, publication, workflow, community].
  3. We will collaborate openly with others in doing so.
  4. Our participation is open

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Key principles

Be open source

Be standards-based

Support key formats (HTML, PDF, EPUB, images, video and data)

Interoperate (the client should work with any compliant service provider)

Support the notion of the “clean page”, letting readers choose which annotations to layer in.

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Ambitious timeline

Design & Build - Y1

Interview users, run experiments, gather requirements. Discussions w/ key platforms. Ship standards. Write software.

Deploy - Y2

Make annotation available with articles, books and other media objects.

Market - Y3+

Drive adoption through partnerships and targeted programs.

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Timeline of activities to date

Coalition launched with 40 members

Steering Committee formed

Members surveyed for requirements

Working group formed at FORCE11

Coalition kick off meeting in Portland

All materials are available via the Working Group page; new members welcome

Jan

Apr

Feb

Mar

Dec

2015

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AAK Coalition Steering Committee

Scott Edmunds - Gigascience

William Gunn - Elsevier

Laurel Haak - ORCID

Brooks Hanson - AGU

Maryann Martone - Hypothes.is

Johanna McEntyre - PubMed Central

Peter Murray-Rust - ContentMine

Nicole Nogoy - Gigascience

Kristen Ratan - Collab. Know. Fdn

Tara Robenalt - PLOS

John Sack - HighWire Press

Rob Sanderson - Stanford Libraries

Doug Schepers - W3C

Tzviya Siegman - Wiley

Jeffrey Spies - Center for Open Science

Simeon Warner - arXiv

Dan Whaley - Hypothes.is

Rebecca Welzenbach - Michigan Pub. John Unsworth - Brandeis University

http://hypothes.is/annotating

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Kick off Meeting: FORCE2016 in Portland

> 70 attendees to together to:

Explore technical opportunities and challenges

Explore publisher’s opportunities and challenges

Converge on a definition of interoperability

Determine use cases that are in scope

Identify next steps

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Interoperability

Converged on a set of features for interoperable annotation

What is currently missing:

No standard way on the annotation server to tell what annotations are on this page.

Many different clients that support basic functionality

Portability across hosting services

Persistence of user/document identity across different systems

Technical implementation group

Rob Sanderson, Stanford University Libraries

Nick Stenning, Hypothes.is

Will use the W3C Community Group for discussions

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Use cases/user stories

Coalition members agreed to freely share user stories and experiences

No overarching use case was envisioned

Activities planned around:

Portable, annotation-based peer review

Journal-hosted journal clubs

Post-publication, cross-platform peer review

Distinguishing between discursive vs authoritative annotations

Plans to increase awareness and understanding of annotations

Plans to increase number of annotations

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Outcomes/next steps

Create dedicated web portal (aakcoalition.org) and grow the coalition

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Place to share user stories

Listing of available tools and technology

Refine set of features into a shared definition of interoperability

Establish technical specifications working group

Conduct usability/user analysis of existing tools to understand user experience better

Join us in creating an interoperable future: coalition@hypothes.is