Sayeed Choudhury
Associate Dean for Research Data Management
Johns Hopkins University
Mark Patton
Senior Software Engineer
Johns Hopkins University
Through a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Johns Hopkins and Tufts University are working with a group of partners to develop a framework for annotation interoperability. The overarching goal of this grant is a demonstration of making use of annotations created in one application for one purpose in another application for another purpose using web-based standards, protocols, and associated APIs. Through an initial planning workshop, we developed relevant ideas and approaches in consultation with application teams from Hypothes.is, T-Pen, Digital Mappa, Pelagios Commons, and with Rob Sanderson, Semantic Architect at the Getty Institute and member of the W3C Web Annotation working group. The Johns Hopkins team has modeled sample content from the Digital Library of Medieval Manuscripts and the Tufts team has modeled sample content from the Perseus Digital Library in a manner that both teams can display content within separate reading environments. This presentation will describe the proposed approach and demonstrate our initial results.
