Doug Reside
Associate Director, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities
University of Maryland
Dave Lester
Assistant Director, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities
University of Maryland
Trevor Owens
Community Lead
George Mason University
The Open Annotation Collaboration (OAC) is an effort funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to facilitate the creation and sharing of annotation. Following a presentation delivered at the CNI 2009 Fall Membership Meeting by Rob Sanderson and Herbert Van de Sompel, this project briefing will describe and demonstrate an implementation of the OAC model in the multimedia tagging features added to the Center for History & New Media’s reference management software, Zotero. The new features, based on the AXE software libraries developed by the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities, allow users to annotate regions within an image, timespans in an audio file, or similar regions in video. This presentation will discuss modifications to the Zotero data model, the initial interoperability specifications developed by the technical group, and outline the future directions of the tool as a reference implementation of the OAC model.
