Clifford Lynch
Director, CNI

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The Open Annotation Collaboration (OAC) project is pleased to announce an open call for statements of interest in participating in the Using the OAC Model for Annotation Interoperability Workshop. The workshop will be held 24-25 March 2011 in Chicago, IL and will provide an in- depth introduction to the OAC data model and ontology for describing scholarly annotations of Web-accessible information resources.

Use cases suggested by workshop participants and involving a range of scholarly annotation classes and target media types will be discussed. Participants will be asked to examine, comment on, and provide feedback on how well the OAC data model and framework intersects (or fails to intersect) with domain-specific needs for scholarly annotation services and with existing discipline or repository-specific annotation tools and services. By the end of the day and a half workshop, attendees will be better prepared to propose and undertake implementations of annotation tools and services that leverage the OAC data model and ontology.

The workshop is planned for 9 AM March 24 through 1 PM March 25, 2011, in Chicago, Illinois. Limited support is available to reimburse invited participants for reasonable travel costs. Preliminary statements of interest & use case briefs are requested by January 24, 2011. In the event of oversubscription, these briefs will be used to select invitees; invitations will be issued by February 7.

Please see http://www.openannotation.org/documents/CallForWorkshopParticipation.pdf for additional details and context; contact Tim Cole (t-cole3@illinois.edu) or Jacob Jett (jjett2@illinois.edu)  for further information.

The Open Annotation Collaboration is supported by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. OAC members include the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the University of Maryland, the University of Queensland (Australia), and the Los Alamos National Laboratory.

Thanks,

Tim Cole
University of Illinois at UC

The Nov. 2009 session of CNI Conversations featured a few highlights from the upcoming CNI member meeting by Executive Director Clifford Lynch.  Cliff also discussed institutional repositories, the recent ARL/CNI special collections forum, and a new book of essays dedicated to Jim Gray.  Participant questions included a request for an update on the Open Annotation Collaboration and comments on the Google Books negotiations.  Joan Lippincott, CNI Associate Director, provided an update on the EDUCAUSE annual conference.