You, Me, Them, Everybody*: OERs and the politics of web annotation

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1 You, Me, Them, Everybody*: OERs and the politics of web annotation John Casey 1, Trevor Collins 2 1. City of Glasgow College 2. The Open University *Everybody Needs Somebody to Love (Burke, Berns & Wrexler).

2 What is Web Annotation? 2

3 What is Web Annotation? Traditional annotations are marginalia, errata, and highlights in printed books, maps, picture, and other physical media. Web annotations are an attempt to recreate and extend that functionality as a new layer of interactivity and linking on top of the Web. It will allow anyone to annotate anything anywhere, be it a web page, an ebook, a video, an image, an audio stream, or data in raw or visualized form. Web annotations can be linked, shared between services, tracked back to their origins, searched and discovered, and stored wherever the author wishes; the vision is for a decentralized and open annotation infrastructure 3

4 Conceptual Model My Annotations are independent of your web page But they are superimposed onto your web page - by my annotation system You may or may not see this or even know it is there out on the web 4

5 Example: Annotating OER17 site System is called for textual annotations 5

6 Example: Annotating OER17 site#2 6

7 Web Annotation: Background Part of the group Scope is more than just publishing; Web annotation is for all content on all devices. Adding another layer on top of the web Scholarly Communications (hypothes.is - textual) Fact Checking for Research and news investigative journalism Citation of research data and web resources (emerging) Many educational and leisure applications 7

8 Web Annotation: Politics & Utility OER friendly can enhance and extend existing OERs Annotations and notes can become media-rich and shared with others beyond comments Discussions can happen in and around the web page Socio-economic implications for; the traditional role of the academic author, copyright, reputation and ownership Can circumvent decisions that content owners have made about whether they want commenting in the first place 8

9 Web Annotation: Politics & Utility #2 Investigative Journalism and Bio-Science = same use case! This is where annotations can become the message stream environment around source documents and data. There are other tech challenges such as data security during the research process and after publication, especially when involving larger groups of users with different tech capabilities. Both source documents and annotations need a secure infrastructure, given the sensitive aspect of the investigative process (sources and story need to be protected). Annotating Investigative Journalism I Annotate

10 Image Annotation: IIIF 10

11 Image Annotation: Wellcome Trust and Digirati 11

12 Clipper: Audio & Video Annotation Origins in Jisc Research Data Spring work in RDM Clipper consortium Industry / technology support City of Glasgow College (collaborators) Open University Microsoft Research / Azure Reach Will Limited Digirati Ltd (data model: IIIF) Pilot projects W3C Annotation Working Group The Royal Scottish Conservatoire Software Sustainability Institute EUSCREEN Nature Journals The Roslin Institute BUFVC 12

13 Problem: Using audio & video Audio and video data are not well supported by institutional research data management infrastructure or planning The use of audio and video data is rapidly expanding across all disciplines (not just the Humanities and Arts) Characteristics of the media (compared to traditional data ) Large file sizes Lumpy data format Time consuming to analyse Hard to share your analysis 13

14 Solution: Virtual clips Create virtual clips that can be shared as URIs and annotated using free text (without altering or copying the original media files) Respects the content owner s rights and permissions policies URIs support social media integration and new forms of collaboration Rich source of analytics quantitative and qualitative making video and audio as easy to work with as text Works with MP3, MP4, M3U8, YouTube, Vimeo, SoundCloud etc. Early release at 14

15 Clipper in a nutshell Clipper Clip: Create a virtual clip (i.e. source file, start and end times) 2. Organise: Annotate and store clips and cliplists within projects 3. Share: URIs for sharing playable clips, cliplists and projects 15

16 Clipper plans Code Open source code (github) Standards W3C web annotations Service Online subscription service Automated attribution AV source content License Picker (ugc) CC,, Custom Integrations Web MP4/3 simple direct web links (e.g. Dropbox, Blogs, etc.) Vimeo, Facebook, Twitter Data export and convert JSON-LD, CSV, XML, HTML, W3C Continued Development New features and widening focus: higher and further education, training, culture, heritage 16

17 Wrap-up Further information Blog: Demo: Twitter: Contacts John Casey Trevor Collins Will Gregory 17