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AnnotatIST -- Annotate ISTanbul Gathering

View from Kandilli Campus

During 28-30 May 2015, a group of thinkers came together in a rather spontaneous meet up. A mixed group of annotation enthusiasts and curious met up at TETAM (elecommunications and Informatics Technologies Research Center) at Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey. A quiet campus surrounded by many old trees and a view of the Bosphorus - perfect for a retreat. Can't say how much the location had to do with a solid 2.5 day participation we all enjoyed and appreciated.

Participants: T B Dinesh, Emrah Güder, Onur Güngör, Lambert Meertens, Anil Menon, Kavita Philip, Fulya Sarı, Murat Seyhan, Sadık Tekgöz, Suzan Uskudarli, Orkut Yılmaz



Participant contributions

It was a busy 2.5 days indeed. During the workshop the concept of annotations, web annotations, and use cases were discussed. PhD and MS students whose work is related to annotations made some presentations. As usual, seeing triggers insights and understanding. The Twitter annotation model of Onur and the re-narration work of Emrah were considered as turning point for several participants.

A view of people at work!

Discussing Twitter Annotation model " Heated Discussion "Remote Participation" "Break Time"

Some of the issues and perspectives that emerged


Annotation Prototypes and Use Cases

Benjamin Young (Hypothes.is)


Twitter Annotation

Re-narration


Labor Tech (A Serious User Community)

Kavita is part of an ongoing global self-organized research community that regularly discusses impact of technology on communities. To support their work, this group (Labor Tech) relies on digital tools to communicate about issues by finding, reading, and annotating documents. Their group behaviour naturally has and does heavily involve annotation as a scholarly activity. Alas, the tools that support communication and annotation do not satisfy this community, for all the reasons that are often mentioned: lack of interoperability and search are the major ones.

Two people (Stephanie Steinhardt and Winifred Poster) from Labor Tech participated remotely and explained their issues. This group has also clearly articulated the desire to support and take part as a user group to provide feedback in use cases and design as needed. Suzan has since participated in one of their meetings and is keen on pursuing this real use case that has immense need for annotation support. Their needs are not peculiar to their community and would readily extend to any online community who is working in any area.



Reflections from participatnts

Anil:

understanding annotation



Lambert:

Another Website is Possible with pointer to Our Movement



Alsi:

The more I imagine the almost infinite number of possibilities of creating/curating/remaking... in indefinite number of ways/styles/methods/perspectives..., the more Anotat-İST becomes a restory ever accessed and renarrated.

You may wanna check this out

one of the E-words was essence.

Essence... Of you sitting there, listening, absorbing, pondering, stirring things up, articulating, ... It felt really good. I really appreciated and enjoyed the essence of your presence.



Fulya: Education Design and Annotation



Onur: twitter meta-tagging slide

Twitter meta-tagging slide


Benjamin:

Here is the Annotator 2.0 storage plugin that will (hopefully) facilitate the architecture we looked at: https://github.com/bigbluehat/annotator-pouchdb

I hope to release soon the Firefox extension.

In the end, adding PouchDB (one part of the federation story I presented) to a Firefox add-on took some minimal "hacking" but otherwise was the usual Firefox add-on programming work.

My hope is that This Sort Of Thing could be used for all sorts of content--not just annotation--and provide a foundation for device-to-cloud, cloud-to-cloud, and device-to-device (this one's my personal favorite) synchronization and data sharing.

Thanks again for letting me tune in from http://thatgreenville.com/



Dinesh:

Talking about tools. Check out https://readfold.com/

How to explain restory... hmm..

Imagine someone who is SWeeTing (annotating) the Web for a while, say using swtr.us. Lets say the repository of these SWeeTs, is accessed through dash.swtr.us.

Now lets look at the article:

Journalism + Annotation = ❤️️ By Alexis Hope

You can see a note that is associated with the text "history of annotation" in the section Annotation Landscape. This note is mentions Andy Carvin tweeting about John Unsworth giving a scholarly history of annotation at the NYT summit.

For one who is reading the article, this note may not bring about the intended clarity regarding the history of annotation. However, there may be other notes in their own context that might be better in the context. Now imagine that a more contextual note from dash.swtr.us is shown instead - thereby contextualizing the article for the reader. We call this the restory.

These tidbits that are useful in a story, maybe better refered to as notelets. What do you think of notelet as the other word for annotation. A notelet is folded and thus can be open by who all is allowed to open it and such other attributes are possible. A SWeeT is a semantic web tweet, a notelet is the intended annotation, a note is its manifestation in the context of the article.


Murat:

Purposeful online community discussion during the event




Simon contributes a brief summary of the 'Leuphana Annotation' workshop and a note on the 'Bureau for Book Liberation' prototyping project.



Suzan, Kavita, Onur, all:

Lots of discussions - need to be pulled in here.

food, tea, food, food! (thanks Suzan!)

[also we need to put up scans of the paper annotations]