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Annotation Use Case - Social Semantic Web
Abstract
This document describes a set of use cases, coming from a general area of social semantic web, generated for Annotation W3C Working Group needs.
Social Semantic Web
By bringing in the social into the semantic web, we can look at a semantic web from a sustainist [1] perspective that implies the qualities such as sharing, localism, connectedness and proportionality. Sharability as a design criteria to encourage Collaboration, Open exchange and Commons. Localism encourages Community, Local experiences and Rootedness. Connectedness being about Connectivity, Interdependence and Connections. And Proportionality shifting focus from scale to appropriate scale and human scale.
By bringing in the word social into the semantic web, the human element in an annotation becomes significant and necessary and the Connectedness brings the linked data like relations over the whole of Web data. Also social semantic web helps imagine a decentralized social web that is purposeful and community managed extension of the decentralised web.
Introduction
Annotation can be a natural activity when reading or otherwise engaging with the content on the Web. Typically, for a document in a physical world, highlighting and sticky notes are common paradigms for marking up and associating one's own content with the work being read. Many digital solutions exist in the same space but are, however, not shareable between systems and other people who also have access to the same documents. Annotation of content on the Web is often limited by the (lack of) provisioning of annotation tools by the host of a website content. However, we imagine an independent set of services and tools that can be used to annotate the content, including the media, on the web and that these tools can naturally part of the Browser. The annotations are stored either locally or on a shared repository which can be shared among others and for specific common interests.
This document lays out the use cases for annotations on digital publications and all web content, as (will be discussed and presented for the WG) the W3C Open Annotation Community Group. The use cases are provided as a means to drive forwards the conversation about standards in this arena and to bring to focus the larger need of sustainist approaches and possibilities of the emergent usages of the Web.
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[1] sustainist design guide - Michiel Schwarz and Diana Krabbendam
