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<span class="date"><time class="entry-date" datetime="2017-02-22T12:00:00+00:00"
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>22 February 2017</time></span> by <span class="author vcard"><a
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class="url fn n" href="https://www.w3.org/blog/author/azaroth/"
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title="View all posts by Robert Sanderson" rel="author">Robert Sanderson</a>, <a
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title="View all posts by Timothy Cole" rel="author">Rob Sanderson and Timothy
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title="View all posts by Timothy Cole" rel="author">Timothy
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Cole</a></span> | Posted in: <span class="categories-links">
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<a href="https://www.w3.org/blog/category/technology/annotation/"
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rel="category tag">Annotation</a>, <a
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href="https://www.w3.org/blog/category/digital-publishing/"
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rel="category tag">Digital Publishing</a></span>
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<!-- span class="tags-links">, <a href="https://www.w3.org/blog/tags/webannotation/" rel="tag">Web Annotation</a></span -->
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<span class="tags-links">, <a href="https://www.w3.org/blog/tags/dpub/" rel="tag">DPUB</a></span>
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<div class="entry-content">
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<p>The W3C has announced the <a href="">publication</a> of three new standards aimed to
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<p>The W3C has announced the
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<!-- Add URL to W3C publication announcement --><a href="">publication</a>
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of three new standards aimed to
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enable an ecosystem of interoperable products that let the world comment on,
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describe, tag, and link any resource on the Web. Many websites already allow
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comments, but current annotation systems rely on unique, usually proprietary
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spell the end of the phrase "Don't read the comments!", returning power to the
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readers decide where and how they provide and consume such feedback. </p>
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<h2>What the Web Annotation Standards Do</h2>
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<p>The three new standards describe how to precisely identify the target of an
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annotation within a Web resource. They provide a basic data structure and protocol
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<p>The three new standards describe how to precisely identify the target, body and metadata of
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an annotation of a Web resource. They provide a basic data structure and protocol
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to ensure interoperability among annotation systems, but they do not dictate how
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annotation tools and services are realized in terms of user interface features and
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functionality. Each of the standards serves a specific purpose: </p>
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use cases with tailored interfaces and services. This will encourage new innovations
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and the emergence of community-based best practices. For example, The W3C Working
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Group Note on <a href="https://www.w3.org/TR/annotation-html/">Embedding Web
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Annotations in HTML</a>, published concurrently with the 3 Web Annotation
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Annotations in HTML</a>, published concurrently with the three Web Annotation
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Recommendations, describes and illustrates just a few of the potential approaches
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for including annotations within HTML documents and is intended to serve as a
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for including annotations within HTML documents, serving as a
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starting point for further discussion, experimentation and development. </p>
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<h2>Getting This Far and What's Ahead</h2>
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<p>The work on the annotation specifications started in 2009 with two independent
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href="https://www.w3.org/community/openannotation/#group-reports">initial draft
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specifications</a>. 2014 saw the creation of the Web Annotation Working Group to
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take the work through the standardization process and further the engagement with
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the web community, resulting in the specifications published on February 21st, 2017. </p>
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the web community, resulting in the specifications published on February 21st, 2017.
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<p>As a diverse group of Web developers, publishers, and content creators note below,
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this work is and will be increasingly important as the volume and speed of
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information publishing continue to grow. The world has seen a dramatic increase in
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them in full. Though much hard work remains to be done, a formal standard for a
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universal web annotation layer is a critical step in the development of this
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promising new paradigm.</blockquote>
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<p>The potential breadth of Web annotation tools and services magnifies the impact of
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<p>The broad, growing interest in Web annotation tools and services magnifies the likely impact of
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these specifications. As Dan Whaley, of Hypothes.is and the <a
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href="https://hypothes.is/annotating-all-knowledge/"> Annotating All
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Knowledge</a> coalition, notes, the publication of these Recommendations means
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members of the Open Annotation Community Group. It has always been a community
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effort. We are grateful for the past, present, and future work underway around these
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specifications. </p>
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<p>For further information please contact the Chairs of the Web Annotation Working
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<p>For further information please <a href='mailto:[email protected]'>contact the Chairs</a>
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of the Web Annotation Working
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Group, Dr. Robert Sanderson (J. Paul Getty Trust) and Prof. Timothy Cole (University
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of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign). To discuss uses of the Web Annotation
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Recommendations or to participate in the creation of implementations based on these
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Specifications, please join the Open Annotation W3C Community Group</p>
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Specifications, please join the <a
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href="https://www.w3.org/community/openannotation/">W3C Open Annotation
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Community Group</a>.</p>
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