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<div>===Concept Note for TGC, Bangalore, March 2011===<br />
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''Zainab Bawa, Dr. Bhuvaneswari Raman, Megha Vishwanath, T. B. Dinesh'' <br />
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'''Theme: Communities, Technology and Participation''' <br />
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'''Concept:''' This workshop follows from our recently concluded research on “communities, technology and participation” where we analyzed each of these three concepts independently and in relation with each other. Interventions such as e-governance, open government data, websites, databases, telecentres, in general the organization, representation and presentation of information to different groups in society, stem from specific beliefs and imaginations about development, democracy, state-citizen relationships and empowerment. Our research interrogated each of these ideals, the role that technology plays in their realization and how each of these ideals manifests in different socio-economic and political contexts. We wrestled with questions pertaining to abstraction and customization of technologies, especially if technologies have to be used by different communities, and the implications that varying degrees of abstraction and customization have for the use and costs of technology and the scales at which such technologies are implemented. We deliberated over technological determinism versus ground-level complexities and how, given our own backgrounds, training and institutional and socio-economic positioning in society, we imagine and use technology. <br />
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This workshop is an endeavour to extend some of the discussions we have had with you, to think through and sharpen some of the questions that have emerged in the course of this research along with you, and to expand our thought horizons on issues and questions that are emerging in the broad field of information technologies and governance. Our research team consisted of social scientists, technologists and academics trained in computer sciences. This added a degree of richness and depth to our probing as we thought through and deliberated our research questions and findings by attempting to cross the disciplinary boundaries and analyze how things appear from the other side. We would like to continue with this format in this workshop. Our attempt is to invite a mix of social scientists, technologists, practitioners and computer scientists on each of the panels for the themes that have emerged from our research. We also hope that this workshop will bridge into the current project on Web Accessibility for Inclusion of non-literate communities.<br />
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'''Panels:''' <br />
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* Collation, Organization, Representation and Presentation of Information: One of the fundamental motivations underlying the introduction of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) is to provide information to citizens and to make information more accessible for them. A number of actors ranging from state agencies to NGOs, think tanks, corporations, banks and other financial institutions and civil society actors are vociferously advocating and/or are involved in collecting, organizing, presenting and representing data, either in collaboration with government institutions or on their own. We are interested in case studies and/or experiments regarding how data/information is collected, organized and presented via websites, databases, maps and through other means involving ICTs. Some of the questions which interest us are:<br />
** a. What imaginations underlie the use of technology for opening up and presenting data through ICTs?<br />
** b. What is the nature and content of information that is being gathered and presented via websites, databases, maps and other ICTs? What are the challenges involved in representing data through such means? How are issues such as costs of collating data, archiving, storing and updating and retrieving the data being dealt with?<br />
** c. What are the repercussions of collecting and opening up various kinds of information to different publics?<br />
** d. What imaginations of communities, citizenship and empowerment fuel such interventions?<br />
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* Costs and Scale of Technology: Most of the empirical and conceptual literature on ICTs and their application in contexts of governance, information management and accessibility rarely considers issues of costs and scale of applying technologies in different contexts. Financial costs of deploying ICTs is an important factor that fundamentally affects the design of technologies and how these technologies will be implemented and operated. Financial costs also pertain to maintaining technologies and updating them from time to time. Related to financial costs is the issue of scale i.e., do technologies have to be designed in overarching, abstract formats for them to be applicable in wider contexts or, considering that communities are heterogeneous and complex, do we need very specific, customized technologies for every situation? Scale therefore pertains to questions about how, where and in what manner technology is designed and implemented in different contexts and institutions and how do these scale decisions affect representation of information, access to information, and delivery of government services to different communities? Are non-proprietary technologies better suited to tackle cost and scale issues? How are technologists and practitioners confronting issues of scale and costs when designing technologies? <br />
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* E-governance: E-governance is directly linked with the two themes we have mentioned above. We are specifically interested in e-governance because it is an emerging arena of practice and a large part of research on this area rarely interrogates the claims of accountability, transparency, efficiency and improved state-citizen interfaces in a nuanced manner. In this panel, we are interested in discussing questions and issues related with the manner in which e-governance initiatives are being implemented in India and other parts of the world and how are governments and private parties (which include NGOs and civil society organizations) negotiating with each other, on what issues, in the implementation and running of e-governance projects under Public Private Partnership (PPP) models. We are also interested in understanding: <br />
** a. What factors propel governments to implement e-governance?<br />
** b. What kind of institutional changes in terms of reorganization of hierarchies, roles, processes and laws accompany the implementation of technology under e-governance?<br />
** c. How are government officials and agencies involved in the design of technologies, websites and databases that will be applied under e-governance?<br />
** d. How are issues of costs, scale and ownership of data considered, deliberated and resolved in the context of e-governance?<br />
** e. What are the factors impeding/facilitating the operation of e-governance initiatives?<br />
** f. What happens when technology is introduced to make the state more responsive and accessible to its citizens? How do citizens encounter/mark the state when interacting with it through technological interfaces?<br />
** g. For who is governance made efficient, transparent and accountable through e-governance and in what ways? Who loses and who gains through the application of e-governance? How are losses and gains analyzed and assessed?<br />
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* Technology and Society – research methods, questions, paradigms: In this generic session, we are keen to explore the paradigms that guide the formulation of questions and methods to research state, technology and society. We are interested in discussions that emerge from the different disciplinary standpoints in social and natural sciences. We believe that this generic discussion is critical to begin a dialogue, or for that matter a confrontation and debate, on how we can move beyond standpoints of technological determinism and social complexities to ask more useful questions of technology and society.<br />
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Dates of the Workshop: 18th - 19th March, 2011 <br />
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<div>* ''' Megha Vishwanath '''<br />
* ''' Guillaume Marceau, '''<br />
* ''' Kiran Jonnalagadda, '''<br />
* ''' Zainab Bawa, '''<br />
* ''' Dinesh T B, '''<br />
* ''' Kavita Philip, '''<br />
* '''Bhuvneshwari Raman '''<br />
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<div>=[[Annotatist | AnnotatIST]] -- Annotate ISTanbul Gathering=<br />
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[[File:KandilliCampusView.jpg |alt=View from Kandilli Campus | right | 400px ]] <br />
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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 [http://tetam.boun.edu.tr/ 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. <br />
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'''Participants''': T B Dinesh, Emrah Güder, Onur Güngör, Lambert Meertens, Anil Menon, Kavita Philip, Fulya Sarı, Murat Seyhan, Sadık Tekgöz, Aslı Telli, Suzan Uskudarli, Orkut Yılmaz<br />
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==Participant contributions==<br />
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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.<br />
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A view of people at work!<br />
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[[File:AnnotatISTDiscussion.jpg | alt=Discussing Twitter Annotation model | 300px]] [[File:AnnotatISTHeatedDiscussion.png | 300px | alt=" Heated Discussion]] [[File:AnnotatISTRemoteParticipation.JPG | 300px | alt="Remote Participation"]] [[File:BreakTime.png | 300px | alt="Break Time"]]<br />
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=== Annotation Prototypes and Use Cases ===<br />
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Some of the issues and perspectives that emerged during the workshop are listed here. Definitely not a comprehensive list.<br />
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'''Benjamin Young (Hypothes.is) '''<br />
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Made a [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1xe1xpt2UwvzpA9TZv9iEy-N9zAYXjbmhN-tfnhUT7mQ/present great presentation] of his work, which was very useful. There have been some collaborations between Benjamin, Dinesh, Onur, and Emrah... Hoping to put some more cycles in to that as time progresses.<br />
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Here is the Annotator 2.0 storage plugin that will (hopefully) facilitate the architecture we looked at:<br />
[[https://github.com/bigbluehat/annotator-pouchdb Annotator Pouch DB @ github]]<br />
A Firefox extension to support the federated annotations was in the working to be soon released.<br />
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Benjamin thinks that ''This Sort Of Thing'' could be used for all sorts of<br />
content--not just annotation--and provide a foundation for<br />
device-to-cloud, cloud-to-cloud, and device-to-device synchronization and data sharing.<br />
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'''Twitter Annotation''' <br />
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Onur: twitter meta-tagging slide<br />
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[[image:Onur-example-20150530.png|thumb | Twitter meta-tagging slide | right ]]<br />
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Tweets can really benefit from annotations. Much of the content is cryptic, context dependent, with abbreviations and hashtags emerging and dying in short periods of time. Annotating a tweet would be a fast and easy crowd-sourcing application. The annotations could be used for numerous applications that consume tweets.<br />
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'''Re-narration'''<br />
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Emrah, Suzan, and Dinesh are working on re-narration with semantic annotations. They are modelling the re-narration domain model via an ontology. This is ongoing work that aims to be completed October-ish :)<br />
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[[:File:renarration.pdf | A diagram explaining re-narration]]<br />
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'''Purposeful Online Communities'''<br />
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Murat and Suzan have been working on specifying purposeful online communities in a way to customize community specific information and workflow. Annotation seems to be a type of community activity that should be provided as primitive functionality -- with the possibility of customizing semantic tags.<br />
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We had a break out session with Labor Tech group representative Kavita and other interested persons. It was a very useful session and we hope to pursue this line of work.<br />
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=== Labor Tech (A Serious User Community) ===<br />
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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.<br />
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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.<br />
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'''Anil'''<br />
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During the workshop Anil was engrossed and then came to some great insights, which is definitely a good read. How wonderful to have a great narrator who understands computer science. How he left computer science after many years to become a writer is a great story itself. Reading his reflection on [[Annotation_Not_Fiction | understanding annotation]] is worthwhile!<br />
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'''Lambert'''<br />
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Like many wise people, after years of labour and life experience, Lambert has been very reflective about computing and humanity. The [[https://webwewant.org/ Web We Want]] initiative and similar contemplations are getting more and more attention. <br />
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Here is Lambert's call for a movement:<br />
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[[:File:AWiP.pdf|Another Website is Possible]] with pointer to [[:File:Our_Movement.pdf|Our Movement]] <br />
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'''Aslı'''<br />
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Aslı -- a keen observer and articulator -- soaked in much more than the spoken words and made many observations that she shared in pivotal moments.<br />
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She compiled some e-words (as she put it). No, not the geeky e-words... On her list were words like ''essence''. <br />
"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."<br />
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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 re-story ever accessed and re-narrated. <br />
[http://thevarguy.com/open-source-application-software-companies/050415/open-source-history-why-did-linux-succeed You may want to check this out.]<br />
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'''Fulya'''<br />
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Fulya is another multi-dimensional character and had many contributions. <br />
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[[:File:OpenEd2006-Sari.pdf|Education Design and Annotation]] is her view about how annotation could be used in education. Much of the digital content can be useful from any number of perspectives and characteristics, for which annotation would be most useful. <br />
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'''Dinesh'''<br />
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Dinesh-vari (those you know Dinesh, know he has his own way of saying and doing things). These are his notes:<br />
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Re-story was an ongoing theme on Dinesh's mind. Those who understood should tell others. As someone who knows Dinesh for a long time, I know he is usually on to something, even though it usually takes me an awfully long time to get it! <br />
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Here is what he says: <br />
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How to explain restory... hmm..<br />
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Imagine someone who is [[Sweet_Web | SWeeT]]ing (annotating) the Web for a while, say using [http://swtr.us swtr.us]. Lets say<br />
the repository of these SWeeTs, is accessed through [http://dash.swtr.us dash.swtr.us].<br />
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By Alexis Hope<br />
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You can see a note that is associated with the text "history of annotation" in the section Annotation Landscape.<br />
This note is mentions Andy Carvin tweeting about John Unsworth giving a scholarly history of annotation at the NYT summit.<br />
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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.<br />
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These tidbits that are useful in a story, maybe better refered to as notelets. What<br />
do you think of notelet as the other word for annotation. A notelet is<br />
folded and thus can be open by who all is allowed to open it and such<br />
other attributes are possible. A SWeeT is a semantic web tweet, a notelet is <br />
the intended annotation, a note is its manifestation in the context of the article.<br />
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</blockquote><br />
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Check out [[https://readfold.com/ Read Fold]] as an interesting related tool. Here is an article about it: [https://readfold.com/read/alexishope/journalism-annotation-GkLGdCJ2 Journalism + Annotation = ❤️️]<br />
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Simon contributes a [[Annotatist_Simon_Post | brief summary of the 'Leuphana Annotation' workshop and a note on the 'Bureau for Book Liberation' prototyping project. ]]<br />
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<div>''' Hold-up problem and open source as infrastructure solution '''<br />
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Micheal and Yuri's article on Gigaom talks about the fate of Flash. Flash is an exception<br />
in the history of Public Software Institutions over the last 50 years of Web development which was dominated open source [http://gigaom.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/schwarz-takhteyev-2008.pdf]. They discuss the hold-up problem that is fundamental to the dependencies created in the proprietary world. The cost of dependent software is a common experience, where if you want to use Microsoft Office or Pagemaker software, you also need Microsoft Windows and one has to also pay for a Windows license. Pagemaker's dependency on Windows requires that Windows works with Pagemaker and also grants Pagemaker the right to develop software on Windows. If Windows does not want Pagemaker to be run on Windows it becomes a hold-up for Pagemaker and for Pagemaker users who are Windows users. Note that this hold-up is generally not an issue with Open Source Licences as Pagemaker can both work out a patch as it can see the internals or it can release a Pagemaker version which installs the dependent software. They elaborate on the severity of the hold-up problem in the IT sector. "Building an Internet company on a foundation consisting of proprietary software owned by others is akin to building a house without owning the land under it." Most businesses are vary of this hold-up problem, while they are also interested in creating these dependencies that can increase the potential of hold-up of other businesses and especially software used in Governments. [Microsoft's 25% worldwide income is US govt]. Further they say "open Source is an economically powerful solution to the hold up problem". When software used by governments and those that the public depend on are held-up.<br />
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<div>==Etymology==<br />
'''"aLipi"'''<br />
means without-alphabet or text/print-impaired (non-literates/low-literates). <br />
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[http://spokensanskrit.de/index.php?tinput=lipi lipi] means alphabet, letter, writing or script in Sanskrit. The "a" sound as a prefix is mostly used as negation in Sanskrit and many Indian languages. We also use the phrase '''"aLipi - God's own content"''' to present re-narration as a suitable method to provide content accessibility for all.<br />
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==Abstract==<br />
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Over 10% of Indian population(120 million) have accessed Internet by December 2011 where 90% of those 10% are from urban areas [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_and_Mobile_Association_of_India=iamai[iamai]]. However, Mobile communications, has reached 900 million Indians in 10 years. By the proliferation of mobile devices in remote areas [iamai] and the smart phones becoming affordable [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aakash_(tablet)=aakash[aakash]], Internet access by rural agricultural and pastoral nomads is becoming a reality. While Internet accessibility groups have developed authoring guidelines and standards for "disabled" Internet users, they do assume that such a user is a (considerably) literate person. What would it be to provision Internet accessibility to non-literates?<br />
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So, in addition to the visually handicapped, the other significant part of the entire population, like the insufficiently literate are also a large target community in developing countries like India, for provisioning screen reading of content. <br />
However, This segment would benefit from a visually rich rendition of a site while "reading out" the content. And it is important to address this segment now.<br />
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==Introduction==<br />
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'''''aLipi''''' is an investigation into creating and managing locally relevant accessible content for communities, this is a web-accessibility project which allows users to re-narrate the Web pages or elements, and to access other users' re-narrations. Thus it changes access to web-content in ways that are relevant for any user, but may be particularly useful to text-impaired users and others who are lost in translation.<br />
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==Objective==<br />
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With main objectives being, to provide an open source accessibility standards-conforming Web 2.0 development platform for content and data management on the Web that reflects on experience of both visually handicapped and the rural/semi-literate. <br />
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We consider the accessibility of Web content to as many people as possible to be very significant. Automatic translation or systematic transformations by dedicated persons/machines is not very feasible. This is especially true when contextualization comes into play. <br />
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Fortunately, there are many Netizens who are very capable to perform these tasks. They can<br />
identify and articulate content in alternate and in an appropriate manner – both in terms of meaning and in form. <br />
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Socially networked uses of collaborative web design can lead to potentially infinite “re-narrations” of web resources. The new architecture we propose builds on rich ontological structures shared across social networks created in a distributed, de-centralized manner, used with browser plug-ins and server-supported web applications. <br />
We build on recent advances in the architecture of Semantic Web; distributed active social networks and Ontology servers; browser based editors for re-narrations, HTML5, Web 2.0, browser extensibility, smart mobiles.<br />
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==Formalization==<br />
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The problem addressed by this project, is the issue of web-accessibility for the text-impaired in the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2.0 Web 2.0] era. We introduce the idea of re-narration as the basis for ''”designing for inclusion.”'' <br />
In this model a web page or even an element of a web is rewritten, i.e., ''re-narrated'', to make it accessible to a target audience of users in a completely decentralized way. A simple way to formalize re-narration is, ''Transformation'' on web elements. Using this formalization, we indicate how re-narration is a way of realizing the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Semantic_Web social semantic web].<br />
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==Implementation==<br />
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Following this social semantic web model, that adds a few tags to identify certain [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annotation annotations] as re-narrations, identify the target community for the re-narration and also the original object that is being re-narrated, using a combination of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Resource_Locator url] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XPath xpaths], these web documents can then be indexed by services that aid the re-narration activities and the recommendation process to help choose the most suitable narration for an aLipi user.<br />
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Towards this is [http://a11y.in a11y.in - "re-narration Web"]. It is a generic Web-framework for developing and rendering narratives that assist in accessing Web-content across cultural boundaries.<br />
Re-narration Web is therefore about Web-accessibility for digital Inclusion or e-inclusion.<br />
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Alipi web framework is supported by a set of tools that demonstrates the feasibility of the re-narration web. [http://alipi.us alipi.us] is a site that people can use to re-narrate and to also view<br />
available alternative narratives, with out having to install any browser extensions. These user utility tools are 1) Authoring tool for narrators and 2) Rendition tool for the target user to view the narratives.<br />
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===The Authoring Tool===<br />
This tool allows a user to re-narrate a webpage of choice. It makes the page content(sub-trees/terms in a page) editable by giving the user the possibility to replace a text content with text and/or provide an audio description of it. Replace an image with another image, more suitable for a given target. For example, While cabs are yellow in New York City but black in London,indicates the style of the re-narration. A summary, translation etc, indicates the language of the re-narration, the geo-graphical localization of the targeted community.<br />
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===The Rendition Tool===<br />
This tool allows a user to view a list of alternative narratives available for a target, render the page using a selected mashup of available narratives for the target's interest for terms/sub-trees/elements at a xpath-indicated fragment of the page.<br />
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===Plugin and Mobile App===<br />
Alipi Firefox add-on helps in indicating to a user when alternative narratives are available for a url. <br />
In the future, this can be configured to indicate only if narratives are available that are suitable for the user. <br />
An Android browser app allows a mobile user to select a suitable narrative if available.<br />
The initial version of Alipi browser extension is implemented as a Firefox plugin alipi.xpi.<br />
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This plugin supports notifying the user of available alternative narratives for a given url, re-rendition of the page using a set of narratives and authoring of re-narration of a web<br />
page. <br />
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===Demo===<br />
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'''Try it!''' On a Firefox. [http://alipi.us alipi.us]. Sites can also integrate it: [http://mitan.in/bcp/raika/ See Alipi link on Raika BCP page]. A directory of links with re-narrations is at [http://alipi.us/dir alipi.us/dir]<br />
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See [[ReNarrationAct]] for the showcase project associating the delivery of law relating to domestic workers on a mobile phone, through re-narrations.<br />
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We mocked up how a web-site could be played as a slide-show [http://a11y.in/a11ypi/idea/firesafetyslides/ here]. The idea behind this slide-show is explained [http://wiki.janastu.org/wiki/Alipi/idea_behind_slideshow here].<br />
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We also took up minimum wages law for domestic workers as an use case scenario. With the help of lawyers and domestic workers we re-narrated the [http://a11y.in/a11y_dw/ page]. After re-narration it could be clearly seen that more domestic workers could understand the law better now.<br />
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===Report===<br />
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Current code-base, development status at [[AlipiGitHub | Alipi git-hub]] <br />
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August 2011 Janastu/Servelots [http://www.scribd.com/doc/63174056/AlipiReport-accessibility-for-the-print-impaired-Aug-2011 report] describes the development of alipi.<br />
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==Acknowledgements==<br />
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alipi / a11y.in research and development is open source, and is seeking developers, narrators, designers and Internet interest groups to help with development, demonstration and formalization so that an effective consolidation of architecture, processes and recommendations can evolve over the next few of years.<br />
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Currently we have two mailing lists:<br />
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alipi-dev @ googlegroups.com for developers<br />
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alipi-users @ googlegroups.com for users<br />
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We also are live on #alipi at irc.freenode.net.<br />
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[[AlipiUpdates | More updates ]]<br />
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and [[AlipiOutDates | some outdates]]. And some [[GeneralNews | News clippings of Interest]]<br />
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[[category: Alipi]]<br />
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==References==<br />
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*W4A paper http://servelots.com/d/W4Aalipi.pdf<br />
*W4A slides http://servelots.com/d/alipi/w4a-slides/<br />
*M4D paper http://servelots.com/d/m4d-feb12delhi-ASocialWebforAnotherBillionFinalSubmission.pdf<br />
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<div>==Abstract== <br />
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==='''Social Semantic Web'''===<br />
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The Social Web of today is characterized by participatory content creation and also syndicated communication. Wikipedia is an example of participatory content creation,<br />
while the micro-blogging exchange using the Twitter service are examples of communication. A parallel and equally significant development of the web has been the steady effort on investing the data on the web with semantics and the resultant growth of the Semantic Web. Various initiatives<br />
to leverage the social web have been applied to collectively<br />
build the Social Semantic Web.<br />
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==='''Web of Data'''===<br />
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Large data sets are available on the Web today that make<br />
it the essential sources for Linked Data. While most of these<br />
need not be collaboratively created, there are sets such as<br />
DBpedia which is participatory in an indirect sense because<br />
it is extracted from Wikipedia. Wikipedia, although is <br />
participatory created is however a single web application that<br />
manages content creation and editing by a number of <br />
people. This is effectively similar to the way various<br />
social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter and Google+<br />
are all centralized web applications that open themselves<br />
to help provision exchange of messages and content among<br />
their subscribers.<br />
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We propose to leverage syndicated communication<br />
to construct semantic content in a participatory manner.<br />
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==Etymology==<br />
[[image:sweet_web.jpg|thumb|upright=1.9|]]<br />
'''SWeeT'''<br />
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A SWeeT is an elementary unit of structured information<br />
that can be used by people to pronounce a semantic <br />
relationship of information on the web. <br />
Like "tweets" are used by people to express <br />
an idea or an interest on twitter(@),<br />
SWeeTs can be used to express a relationship. <br />
SWeeTs differ from Twitter tweets in two important ways: <br />
First, they are decentralized; the SWeeTs may be <br />
curated in arbitrary stores. Second, SWeeTs are <br />
structured so as to reflect a semantic relationship <br />
between web elements governed by an ontology. <br />
This combination of structure and decentralisation <br />
allows for a semantic web to be constructed in a <br />
much more participatory and incremental manner. <br />
Several examples demonstrate how SWeeTs allow <br />
for new ways of building collaborative information <br />
spaces: <br />
Alipi and web page renarration, <br />
heritage walks, <br />
Facebook like applications for online communities, ...<br />
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SWeeTs are Social Semantic "conversations" that help bring an individual to annotate the Web with a set of simple, customizable, tools. SWeeT Web serves as a social complement to the distributed and decentralized Web. SWeeT Web decouples the one that messages and the one that aggregates.<br />
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SWeeT is someone’s context sensitive statement about some Web resource, i.e., a resource which exists on the Web itself. Thus, SWeeT Web facilitates conversational enhancement of the Web through SWeeTs which are stored in repositories. The syntax of a SWeeT is<br />
<br />
*''@user Context Resource Attributes''<br />
<br />
where<br />
''@user'' is the person making the statement, <br />
''Context'' is the resource that defines the context (i.e. ontology),<br />
''Resource'' is the subject (URI) of the statement, and <br />
''Attributes'' describe the properties of the Resource according to the given Context.<br />
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==Demo==<br />
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'''Some links'''<br />
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A SWeeT store: [http://thestore.swtr.in/]<br />
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SWeeTs in the store appear when someone uses a browser add-on (or a bookmarklet, or a browser app) to SWeeT a semantic-tag about a Web entity such as an image or a paragraph on some web-page.<br />
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'''Alipi Project'''<br />
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Alipi uses SWeeTs.<br />
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[http://alipi.us alipi.us] helps you get started. When you go to a web-page using alipi.us,<br />
you get a bar on top that lets you do a few things:<br />
1) Author an alternate narrative for a part of the page that interests you,<br />
2) See if others have provided alternate narrations,<br />
3) See if any other page on the site has been re-narrated.<br />
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When you choose an alternate narration, say a Kannada narration for the page http://schedule2013.rmll.info/programme/le-libre-dans-la-societe/communautes/article/sweet-web?lang=nl, you can also see the SWeeTs that helped in order to compile this alternate page by clicking on "Info".<br />
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When you author an alternate narrative, a SWeeT is generated and sent to the store.<br />
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a11y.in is a re-narration service that uses the SWeeTs stored in a few stores such as<br />
demo.swtr.us<br />
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Also see [http://alipi.us/dir the directory] of pages that are re-narrated.<br />
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==Implementation==<br />
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To add more about the architecture here someday soon. <br />
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A SWEET WEB for Sweeter us. http://swtr.us<br />
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Talks [2013] <br />
[https://www.google.nl/search?q=site:schedule2013.rmll.info+dinesh RMLL 2013 talks]<br />
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Slides [2012]<br />
[http://j.mp/30sri2pm XPATH + tweet = social semantic web]<br />
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An early and sketchy document on the [http://j.mp/swtrus SWEET messages] on the Web.<br />
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Why tweet when you can bleat!<br />
<br />
''bah'' '''bah''' ''baa'' '''baa''' '''''bleat''''' <br />
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Bleat? SWeeT!<br />
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<div>This discussion, we hope will not only substantiate the business economic sense of open source but also a general understanding of community infrastructure. In turn, we hope that understanding the why and how of open source may provide us insights into a culture of infrastructure development. Again in Serle's language: "It is wrong to assume, as we have been doing throughout history, that those primarily responsible for the foundations of civilization are its leading figures and institutions. While those leaders are certainly involved, full respect must be given to the invention, as well as the hard work, done by the uncredited many." Open source analogies could make this aspect tractable. "That hackability-support is what gives us infinite varieties of infrastructure. What we need now is to start understanding new forms of infrastructure on their own terms, and to understand more deeply what infrastructure has been all along." "Can we align infrastructure and generativity? Answering these kinds of questions requires examining topics at a depth one cannot plumb just with news coverage, or by framing queries with the parochial interests of categories and factions. We are in new territory here."<br />
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Pinar Dag, Activist and data journalist, Dag Medya<br />
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Yagmur Denizhan, Faculty at Bogazici University, Electrical and Electronics Engineering<br />
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T B Dinesh, Technical Director at Janastu<br />
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Orkut Murat Yılmaz, Geodesy and Open Street Maps, Bogazici University<br />
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Onur Gungor, PhD candidate in Computer Engineering ('''local organizer''')<br />
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Emrah Guder, MS candidate in Computer Engineering <br />
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Lambert Meertens, Another Website is Possible, Amsterdam and Ayvalık<br />
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Anil Menon, Fiction Writer<br />
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Kavita Philip, Faculty at UC Irvine, History<br />
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Fulya Sari, Educational technologist, information architect, user experience researcher<br />
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Murat Seyhan, MS candidate in Computer Engineering<br />
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Asli Telli, Faculty at Sehir University, Cinema and Television<br />
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Sadık Tekgöz, System and Network Administrator, Telecommunications and Informatics Technologies Research Center (TETAM)<br />
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Esma, Fahrettin and Burak (grad students at Şehir with related research interest) <br />
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Suzan Uskudarli, Faculty at Bogazici U, Computer Engineering ('''local organizer''')<br />
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Kivanc Yazan, Undergrad in Computer Engineering (Bogazici)<br />
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Winnie and Stephanie from Labor-tech group <br />
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Ward Smith, Library Science, Irvine, CA<br />
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Benjamin Young, Hypothesis and CouchDB<br />
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<div>Consolidation of Internet services is more significant than Open Sourcing the service:<br />
While open sourcing a service such as a mail service will allow users to host their own mail service easily, replicating the infrastructure needed for a service is a big challenge. Also consolidation of a service over the Internet ensures that there is one compliant centralized system than several deviating distributed services. Also a consolidated service is likely to have a large user base. A large number of users justifies that the service tend to be free, even if not open source. An open source service, servicing a very small user group is as good as closed.<br />
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Opening up - Upside and Downside:<br />
While the philosophy of open source communities drives quality, because of contributors reviewing, modifying and patching up code. Some big corporations while they support "freeware" are still largely averse to open sourcing. It is likely that they believe - opening up their code, may lead to several irrelevant discussions that may become a hindrance in the rigorous corporate discipline of execution.<br />
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* Why is the Ubuntu dependencies research of importance?<br />
Contributions to a package that scores really high is important. Or contribution that have been made can be<br />
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* What about packages like Apache where a large number of contributions have been made, but there may not be much dependency on it?<br />
The Ubuntu dependencies research gives scores as a measure for infrastructure.<br />
The Apache contribution (Xerces, POI) must be scored on a measure for innovation.<br />
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Maintaining software involves adding small features, ensuring backward compatibility, gentle degradation.<br />
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MS has 50000+ people. While this number seems huge and unjustifiable, we cannot underestimate the maintenance effort needed.<br />
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Open source is claim that it supports gentle degradation. Open source communities - don't care that much about backward compatibility and degradation as much as about new features. While gentle degradation is absolutely required for non technical users of software.<br />
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1 Shanthi Road is a gallery space run by Suresh Jayaram.<br />
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<div>* ''' Why open source app code? '''<br />
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If you put out source, you can get people to come and examine it / to give people some feedback or extend to<br />
something good to use. <br />
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Apple's Quick silver had bad code. The person who wrote/ managed Quick silver joined google and put out source<br />
code and said it's bad code. Users determined that performance is bad anyway vs developers announcing this.<br />
Quick silver failed even before its code was open sourced.<br />
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But an individual demonstrating bad open source is different from a Corporation / Government saying it's bad<br />
and inviting criticism. Usually happens because they may have too many unnecessary conversations going on when<br />
it's open source, which may hinder development.<br />
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* ''' The government's understanding of software '''<br />
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EVM argument - Government does not understand software infrastructure because they want to think of it through<br />
their own structure.<br />
Competition will make services cheaper. Open source can't help the make the service cheaper in cases like<br />
Airlines, Railways. E-rail hasn't replaced the official system. Where there is a barrier to entry, open source<br />
projects can't enter (IRCTC)<br />
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Successful open source works if people can build something over it.<br />
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Linux Kernel contribution is not fragmented. - Software is moving towards consolidations.<br />
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Canonical has the trademark of "Ubuntu" - Ubuntu 1 was a proprietary file sharing app like drop box. Ubuntu is sponsored by Canonical - pays for Ubuntu releases. Ubuntu has a "very well managed" community also because money gets pumped into Ubuntu. The commercial angle exists and is driving it forward.<br />
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It helps to understand the influence of packages, who is contributors, which organization are they affiliated with.<br />
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Infrastructure line is very thin...is very expensive. There is lesser money lower down on the infrastructure line and so you can't afford costs of customizing anything on top of it.<br />
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<div>Pantoto Communities project is over a decade old now.<br />
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It is an open source project and our initial code base, which was developed in Java, served us for 4-5 years before becoming a legacy system! Pantoto.com is a frozen indicator of how it worked and what it did.<br />
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Now, its been developed using Python and Mongo.<br />
The api is ready and available to be tested and a web.py Web interface is almost ready.<br />
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Code-base: https://github.com/arvindkhadri/Pantoto-mongo<br />
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<div>'''EVENTS'''<br />
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SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA<br />
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March 2013<br />
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"Tales of Tomorrow," Connie Samaras' solo show at the Armory, opens March 2. Samaras' work over 3 decades has framed the city and nature through historically-nuanced critiques of empire, capital, gender, globalization. See this Difference Engines blogpost for more about her work: http://www.differenceengines.com/?p=204<br />
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April 2013<br />
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The American Association of Geographers meets in Los Angeles this year, April 9 - 13. Daniel Cohen has organized a panel on the future city; more details [[here]]<br />
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The Eaton Conference honours Ursula Leguin this year, Riverside, CA, April 12 - 14. Kavita Philip, Ward Smith, Geeta Patel, Anil Menon and others are [[presenting papers]] on "global SF."<br />
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UC Irvine will host a [[panel]] on global SF with physicist and Locus award-winning fiction writer Vandana Singh, and her co-conspirator, software engineer and fiction writer Anil Menon.<br />
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November 2013<br />
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The Feminist Technology Network (FemTechNet) is applying for an artist & scholars' exchange grant, to enable the travel of creative professionals between LA and the world.<br />
PIs (Alexandra Juhasz and Kavita Philip) plan to host [[people]] from Bangalore and Bogotá.<br />
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'''EXTENDED TANGENTS'''<br />
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'''FUTUROLOGY'''<br />
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''Institutional Sites''<br />
The Univ of Hawai'i at Manoa has a famous institute for Futures Studies. Debora Halbert does some good activist/feminist stuff there. An overview of the field IN THIS PDF<br />
[http://www.futures.hawaii.edu/publications/futures-studies/FuturesStudiesForSAGE2011.pdf]<br />
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The Institute for Alternative Futures makes this into a money-spinning consultancy gig! I can't quite figure out the politics of how this kind of pro-poor work actually functions:<br />
[http://altfutures.org/?q=pro_poor]<br />
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''SF and Future Thinking''<br />
The SF-encyclopaedia has a page on Futures Studies. It's not very well footnoted, but it makes useful links, pointing to the often-conservative politics of future-oriented thinking (from Thomas Malthus to Donella Meadows), and linking it to Science Fiction, as well as to a military-industrial-imperialist set of political concerns<br />
[http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/futures_studies]<br />
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SF and critical theory<br />
Here SF stands not only for science fiction but for the broader term "speculative fiction" as well. Few other than literary critics have picked up on Deleuze's famous claim that [[theory IS sf]]<br />
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'''HAUNTS'''<br />
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Haunting may be thought of as related to futurology. If one doesn't privilege a time line from origin to infinity, then one might think of haunting as happening in any direction. Ghosts of the future haunt the present and shape our selective readings of the past, just as much as the more conventional story about past ghosts haunting the present. And nostalgia (though it is a longing for the past) is a form of future-thinking (in the sense that it shapes our desire for certain kinds of futures, similar to a selective shaping of our pasts - as, for example, in the mythical notion of the 1950s that the US Republicans evoked as being lost in the 2012 elections and Obama's version of the future). <br />
Here's a film that draws together urban labour politics and technological infrastructure (the Bangalore Metro) through the metaphor of ghosts: Behind The Tin Sheets<br />
[http://www.tinsheets.in/] Also see this work from Latin America [[http://www.des-bordes.net/0.5/en/la%20barricada%20de%20los%20muertos/helena_chavez.html]]<br />
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'''JNNURM, NREGA,''' and other development projects in Modern India<br />
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Leo saldanha on the politics of co-optation in development projects:<br />
[http://mail.sarai.net/pipermail/urbanstudygroup/2006-July/002433.html]<br />
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'''OPEN SOURCE'''<br />
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''Open Source Education''<br />
[http://thepublicschool.org/about]<br />
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''Open Source Design''<br />
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If The Economist is onto it, you know it's mainstream now! And no surprises, they want to figure out how to profit:<br />
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"The big question is how to profit from all of this fevered making. Does open-source design risk breaking the link between intellectual property and value, and doing to designers what the internet did to music and journalism?<br />
http://www.economist.com/blogs/schumpeter/2012/11/open-source-design?fb_ref=activity<br />
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== Venue ==<br />
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Bogazici University<br />
Kandilli Campus<br />
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TETAM Building<br />
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4th Floor (Roof floor)<br />
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There are a lot of options to choose but we want to list the most robust option at first.<br />
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1) You can use 14R and 15R IETT buses and get off at RASATHANE stop. 14R goes to Kadikoy, 15R goes to Uskudar.<br />
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This means you can use Metrobus to get off at Altunizade stop and walk to Kisikli Cad and hop on 14R.<br />
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Also, you can come to Uskudar by boat and hop on 15R.<br />
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Details are on the map at the end of this page.<br />
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2) Another option is to use the shuttles which run every hour from Kuzey Kampus (which is on Europe side) on '''weekdays'''. See below<br />
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3) Reaching Kandilli campus is easy and fast on weekdays by taking a boat that reaches Kandilli boat terminal by as the campus bus will be waiting there to take people to the Kandilli Campus. Reaching by 10am is easy as the boat will arrive at 9:50 and bus is less than 10min after that. <br />
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==Shuttle times from Bogazici Kuzey Campus to Kandilli Campus==<br />
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ATTENTION: These shuttles do not operate on Saturday.<br />
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From the South campus and North Campus main gates to Kandilli Campus and vice versa at the same times in weekdays:<br />
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-08.45<br />
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-15:30<br />
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-16:45<br />
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-20:00 (in front of TETAM)<br />
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Details are on the map at the end of this page.<br />
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==Venues near by and the food at the canteen==<br />
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== Map for public transportation ==<br />
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https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=zgP5KT4O80vc.k8ZM42Phzjz4&usp=sharing<br />
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<div><h1>Overview</h1><p><strong>Project</strong>:</p><p>This is an upcoming project from Janastu. The project is to provide an easy and efficient Inventory Model which works with the existing firm which have products related to<span class="st"> Biomass Based Energy efficient devices</span>. The firm have a portal and the transactions being supported by Tally software.</p><p><strong>Method</strong>:</p><p>We are building a system which&nbsp; integrates the present existing Tally&nbsp; inventory system with the portal and reported directly on to the webpage.</p><p>Tally, Python, Web Framework</p><p><strong>Demo:</strong></p><p><strong>Repository</strong></p><br />
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<div>==March 18, 19 2011; 1 Shanthi Road, Bangalore==<br />
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This is in continuation of the series of discussions about technology and society, with an emphasis on encouraging conversations between programmers, computer scientists, social scientists and practitioners. <br />
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This workshop follows from our recently concluded research on “communities, technology and participation” where we explored issues concerning opportunities and challenges in digitising public and government data, costs and scale of implementing technologies, reconfiguration of state-citizen relationships through e-governance and research methods and paradigms emerging from societal and technological standpoints. It is an endeavour to extend some of the discussions we have had with you, to think through and sharpen some of the questions that have emerged in the course of this research along with you, and to expand our thought horizons on issues and questions that are emerging in the broad field of information technologies and governance.<br />
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===The [http://docs.google.com/document/d/14X3hJHluc2daN8k-k4_fXQ8fCHBTiG0uxOM5BIpghjg/edit?hl=en&authkey=CLPeuZYP program is available].===<br />
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Directions to the location: [[1ShanthiDirections | 1 Shanthi Road, Bangalore]] are here.<br />
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If you're presenting: We will have a projector, laptop, dvd player, mic.<br />
So you welcome to prepare some slides or mix-media presentations. Do let<br />
us know in advance so we can try to ensure that your presentation will not have any hiccups.<br />
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===For more details, read the [[TGC2011ConceptNote | TGC Concept Note]].===<br />
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<div>[http://cgnetswara.org/ CGNetSwara] is an audio portal platform founded by Shubhranshu Choudhary that allows communities to create portals accessible by both web and phone.<br />
To phone callers, Swara presents a 2 way Interactive Voice Response that the user navigates using the number keys on their phone.<br />
On the web side, Swara presents a blog interface, that can be used to syndicate contents to social media sites as well as other platforms (via RSS)<br />
Users can submit content to the platform both via the IVR, by recording audio messages as well as via the web.<br />
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===AnnotatIST - Annotate ISTanbul gathering=== <br />
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Bogazici University<br />
[http://tetam.boun.edu.tr/ TETAM] - Rasathane, Kandilli, Istanbul <br />
([[Annotatist FAQ]]: directions and schedule rationale)<br />
'''28 - 30 May 2015''' **see schedule details**<br />
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See [[Annotatist_Post]] for a brief report. Also a list of paraticipants is [[Annotatist Participants | here]]<br />
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Digitized, distributed knowledge was supposed to herald a new golden age of collaborative thinking and doing. With physical objects we have used annotations as a way to markup or embellish an existing document during collaborative sessions. And indeed with digital objects on the Web, we now have a range of tools and techniques for annotating them. Yet the most creative and engaging forms of collaboration currently come to us via centralized corporate services such as that of FaceBook or Google Docs, not via independent, interoperable and open frameworks that support collaboration specific decentralized repositories. <br />
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We propose to discuss the potential of semantic annotation tools with the creativity of real-world scenarios of making and sharing annotations, interlinking and harvesting these, and modifying, combining, and transforming pieces of knowledge to support innovative forms of collaborative thinking, making, and doing. Digitized forms such as web-based text, image, audio, video objects and subject ontologies offer unprecedented opportunities for people to work together and produce collaborative knowledge across widely different geographical locations and technical affordances. <br />
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The intention of this gathering is to bring together people who have been working on annotation frameworks and those who see the potential in annotating web documents. We will also reflect on the freedom of expression, privacy and personalization needs of these emerging modes of internet usage.We aim to model a space and a form of technological practice, in an experimental collaborative workshop. After 25 years of the Web and over a trillion web pages, it is time to embrace the annotation game and transform our collaborative tools.<br />
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==schedule==<br />
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*28 - pre event - a long afternoon of introductions and Friday schedule<br />
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People start arriving at the venue post lunch.<br />
By 4pm we can start the event introductions.<br />
Labor-tech (LA) connect at 7pm <br />
We go on till 9pm including dinner on location<br />
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*29 - why annotate today - talks and discussions (10am until 5pm+)<br />
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10am arrive. Start at 10:30am.<br />
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*30 - hack meet and follow up <br />
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10am until .. Saturday schedule to be worked on Friday<br />
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Generally:<br />
The idea of social semantic web and how annotations can address the needs of the emerging internet users such as low-literate, storytelling and content curation.<br />
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Technically:<br />
Interoperable, federated and contextual annotations, and annotation containers<br />
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'''Tele participation:''' Some people who were not able to attend asked about remote participation. <br />
We tried out http://meet.jit.si which uses WebRTC and the performance was not half bad. We are going to try it. <br />
If you are interested, please do try it out to check that your browser is compatible. <br />
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Recent Annotation Meets:<br />
[iAnnotate.org iAnnotate] and [hybridpublishing.org/2015/05/ Hybrid Publishing 2015]<br />
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Links of interest<br />
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[http://wiki.janastu.org/wiki/AnnotationUseCase Annotation Use Case]<br />
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[http://iuf.alternatifbilisim.org Alternatif Bilisim] <br />
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[http://www.w3.org/annotation/ Web Annotation Working Group]<br />
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[[POC]]<br />
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(more to come)<br />
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Short url for this doc: http://wiki.janastu.org/Annotatist<br />
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<div>Open Source innovations are compare-able at a technical level to closed source innovations, not usability level.<br />
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Live Journal - started out as closed source is now open source and is being used by facebook.<br />
* mem cache (everything on RAM read with perl) and<br />
* open id : both came from Live Journal,<br />
* RSS aggregation was invented in Live journal,<br />
* user profile pic was first in Live Journal,<br />
* pics like flickr before<br />
Live Journal was a paid blogging service and was profitable (Brad Fitzpatrick...made it open source, personal philosophy) and then was sold to Six apart...sold to SUP (Russian company) - http://news.livejournal.com/104520.html?thread=66509896. Live journal became a dead service because of Six apart.<br />
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Dead Journal, Greatest Journal and Blurting were born out of Live Journal source.<br />
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People don't use open source because the service is a lot of work. Open source is not about control it's about infrastructure. People don't want to be in control...they do not know what to do with open source.<br />
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What makes a service cheaper and tending towards free is not "open source" but the number of users (stake holders of the service). An open source tool with one user = Closed source.<br />
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<div>==[http://dev2013.org/program.html 'Practitioner Session'] Janastu Poster at DEV 2013, Bangalore==<br />
Ongoing Janastu activities that are of potential interest to DEV'13<br />
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This page is an elaboration of the poster at http://janastu.org/dev2013.pdf<br />
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===Alipi===<br />
'''''[[Alipi]] - Re-narration Web.'''''<br />
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Over 10% of India (120 million) have accessed Internet by December 2011 where 90% <br />
of these 10% are from urban areas [iamai]. Mobile penetration, however, has reached 900 <br />
million Indians in 10 years. Due to the proliferation of mobile devices in remote areas <br />
[iamai] and the smart phones becoming affordable [aakash], Internet access by rural <br />
agricultural and pastoral nomads is becoming a reality. While Internet accessibility<br />
groups have developed authoring guidelines and standards for "disabled" Internet users,<br />
they do assume that such a user is a (considerably) literate person. What would it be<br />
to provision Internet accessibility to non-literates?<br />
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We explore re-narration as a basis for ”designing Internet for inclusion.” <br />
In the renarration model, any web page or even an element of it can be<br />
/re-narrated/, to make it accessible to a target audience of users in a completely <br />
decentralized way. The notion of re-narration is completely general. It could, for <br />
example, mean translating a page automatically to another language. Or it could mean <br />
creating a more accessible version of a technical document, even if it is in the same <br />
language by an expert for a layperson. <br />
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See the [http://y.a11y.in/web/?foruri=http%3A%2F%2Fdev2013.org%2Fprogram.html dev2013.org program] re-narrated to some Indian language contexts. <br />
Or see http://mitan.in/bcp/raika. More examples at [[Alipi]]<br />
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Technically, Re-narration Web is effectively a social semantic web.<br />
The "[http://alipi.us alipi.us]" (the non-literate us) can be seen as a third party service <br />
that is served by collecting the [http://y.a11y.in/web/feeds "narration" type semantic tweets] on the Web.<br />
Such "tweets" are a result of someone re-narrating some content for a specific community context.<br />
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* W4A paper http://servelots.com/d/W4Aalipi.pdf<br />
* W4A slides http://servelots.com/d/alipi/w4a-slides/<br />
* M4D paper http://servelots.com/d/m4d-feb12delhi-ASocialWebforAnotherBillionFinalSubmission.pdf<br />
* Alipi report http://j.mp/alipi2011<br />
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===Annotation===<br />
'''''Mural Annotation'''''<br />
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http://vijayanagara.in describes a project initiated by Deparment of Science and Technology, Govt of India to seek inputs from cultural heritage groups in putting to gether a demonstration case that brings various image processing technologies to show case Indian Digital Heritage. Using the heritage site Hampi to illustrate the possibilities.<br />
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Lepakshi, a temple site near Bangalore, has many large murals from the Vijayanagara period.<br />
We are experimenting on how large murals can be annotated by experts and others so that these annotations also contribute to the knowledge bank of Indian Digital Heritage.<br />
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A demo is available at http://j.mp/temple-mural <br />
We start with annotating a mural with text. See [[Annotation]] of A2A mural at http://iiacd.org/lepakshi/lepakshimap/ <br />
Then [[MOWL]] team will process the text and help situate it into a language that can be used by the tool.<br />
Once such a language is codified, the [[Sweet Web]] infrastructure is assumed as available to inform<br />
all the IDH participants and others of these annotations. These SWEETs can be used by presentation apps<br />
to render a selection of these specific to a context.<br />
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This work is a collaboration with the International Institute of Art, Culture and Democracy (http://iiacd.org) and the MOWL (multi-media ontology) group at IIT Delhi.<br />
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Related links: [[Lepakshi Temple Map]] and iiacd.org/lepakshi <br />
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===Sweet Web===<br />
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'''''SWeeT Web for swtr.us'''''<br />
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Web as we know it gets annotated/updated with our conversations<br />
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Here is a recent sampling of a few '''''SWeeT'''''s.<br />
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@Anon annotated http://folkhampi.openrun.net/mural-annotation/#[top=-3756,bottom=-3892,left=5070,right=5238] <br />
as anklet name:anklet, character:, material:Silver #swtr<br />
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@Amrapali narrated http://dev2013.org/#//*[@id='content']/DIV/DIV/DIV/DIV[2]/P[4] <br />
at http://alipi123.blogspot.com/2013/01/acm-dev-2013_10.html#//*[@id='post-body-7823136983528562417']/p[7] <br />
for Software in Gujarati<br />
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@Amrapali narrated http://dev2013.org/#//*[@id='content']/DIV/DIV/DIV/DIV[2]/P[4] <br />
at http://alipi123.blogspot.com/2013/01/acm-dev-2013_10.html #//*[@id='post-body-7823136983528562417']/p[7] <br />
for Software in Gujarati<br />
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@Arvind annotated http://folkhampi.openrun.net/mural-annotation/#[top=-960,bottom=1856,left=13696,right=14432] <br />
as Vishnu name:Vishnu, character:Vishnu, material: #swtr<br />
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Some of them say they are annotations. Some say they are narrations. In each one, someone is saying that it is an annotation or a narration. And what it is an annotation or a narration of. The first SWeeT here can be read as: the person "Anon" says that an object at the URL http://folkhampi.openrun.net/mural-annotation/ has been annotated as "anklet". Here "annotate" is a type whose definition can be found on the site somewhere (typically at site/type/annotate). The type specific attributes (in this case that it is an anklet with certain properties) of this SWeeT can be interpreted by looking up the type information.<br />
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Similarly the second SWeeT says it is a narration of an object (could be a paragraph) at http://dev2013.org<br />
To see how one can develop a Web application using these "narrate" SWeeTs, visit http://alipi.us and look at the <br />
narrations at http://dev2013.org<br />
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These SWeeTs have an object and a type they refer to. This is not trivial for any individual to key in. These SWeeTs are typically also assisted by Browser apps that attend to what a user says and generate an appropriate SWeeT.<br />
For example, one can see that [http://y.a11y.in/web/?foruri=http%3A%2F%2Fdev2013.org%2F dev2013.org] allows one to re-narrate and object and on publishing these alternative narratives, the SWeeTs are generated (see http://y.a11y.in/web/feeds)<br />
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More information at [[Sweet Web]] and http://swtr.us <br />
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We are experimenting with SWeeT Web in the context of [[IDH Knowledge Bank]] to link repositories authored and owned by various groups (see http://vijayanagara.in) that are associated.<br />
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===Follow Sheep===<br />
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'''''Find a good shepherd. Follow the black Sheep.'''''<br />
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Follow the Sheep project involves following shepherds and their (mostly black) sheep,<br />
in the Deccan areas of Karnataka and Andra Pradesh. Shepherds are non-literate in general. And<br />
the nomadic shepherds travel about 400 kms over a range of 6 to 8 months with their herds. They<br />
are in small groups of 3-8 family members. Every few days they migrate to another location that<br />
can feed their sheep. When in a location, they are often in a farmers land after having negotiated<br />
a trade for feed in return to the sheep manure (night droppings). During the day they can graze<br />
part of the farm (as per negotiation) and take the sheep to other grazing areas which are often<br />
common property reserves, and to areas where there is a water body. Most shepherds have mobile<br />
phones and horses or donkeys (and camels as we go north). They use these phones, when there is<br />
signal, to talk to people back home, and sometimes to coordinate shepherding activity.<br />
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The goals of the project<br />
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* work with them to envision and deploy smart phone applications for their needs<br />
* collect track information (possibly for nomadic rights)<br />
* land use information (possibly for smarter apps in future)<br />
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Collaborating with [http://mitan.in Mitan] and [http://socionity.iiit.ac.in/site/ Socionity iiit-h].<br />
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Also see [[Follow the Sheep]]. If you are interested in following the sheep<br />
please register your self at http://mitan.in/followsheep and you will be sent a notification<br />
when a shepherd group comes near you. Also of interest is the idea of Bio-Cultural protocols<br />
for communities who live with animals and forests. Raika is a camel herders community. See what<br />
they say about how they live at http://mitan.in/bcp/raika and also see how [Alipi] helps in <br />
provisioning narratives of this document that is in English to other contexts.<br />
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===Other===<br />
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'''''Other links'''''<br />
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[[POP]] Principles of Programming for Web 2.0 students<br />
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[[Pantoto]] Community managed community knowledge<br />
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[[CR and Digital Media Rights]] <br />
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<div>===Come together, right now, to say something...===<br />
==='''şey hakkında her şey [[Annotatist]]'''===<br />
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This wiki is a space for communications and reflections regarding technology and society.<br />
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We look forward to your edits, however due to spam we do ask you to introduce yourself<br />
so we can to register you (jsadmin at janastu dot org).<br />
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Some popular/suggested categories/entry-pages:<br />
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* [[Postcolonial Techno-Science]] <br />
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* [[Open_Source_as_Infrastructure]] ([[:Category: OSasInfrastructure]])<br />
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* Alipi - Renarration Web [[:Category: Alipi]]<br />
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* Indian Digital Heritage [[:Category: IDH]]<br />
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* Prof. Chaluvaraju's Hampi [[:Category: GKCraju]]<br />
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* [[CGNet Swara]]<br />
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'''''Research''' and Pedagogy Resources:'' [[Pedagogy]]<br />
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'''Also maybe of interest''': <br />
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'''Practitioner poster'''<br />
Jan 11 and 12, 2013: '''[[DEV2013]]''' participation.<br />
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a Past event:''<br />
[[TGC2011 | TGC 2011]] on March 18,19 2011; Bangalore<br />
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Janastu homepage: [http://janastu.org/main.html janastu.org]<br />
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Note: TechnoScience wiki was earlier known as Technology Governance and Citizenship discussion forum.<br />
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<div><h1>Overview</h1><p><strong>Project</strong>:</p><p>This is an upcoming project from Janastu. The project is to provide an easy and efficient Inventory Model which works with the existing firm which have products related to<span class="st"> Biomass Based Energy efficient devices</span>. The firm have a portal and the transactions being supported by Tally software.</p><p><strong>Method</strong>:</p><p>We are building a system which&nbsp; integrates the present existing Tally&nbsp; inventory system with the portal and reported directly on to the webpage.</p><p>Tally, Python, Web Framework</p><p><strong>Demo:</strong></p><p><strong>Repository</strong></p><br />
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<div><h1>Overview</h1><p><strong>Project</strong>:</p><p>This is an upcoming project from Janastu. The project is to provide an easy and efficient Inventory Model which works with the existing firm which have products related to<span class="st"> Biomass Based Energy efficient devices</span>. The firm have a portal and the transactions being supported by Tally software.</p><p><strong>Method</strong>:</p><p>We are building a system which&nbsp; integrates the present existing Tally&nbsp; inventory system with the portal and reported directly on to the webpage.</p><p>Tally, Python, Web Framework</p><p><strong>Demo:</strong></p><p><strong>Repository</strong></p><br />
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<div>sketch-up Onur presented which describes the idea behind Twitter Annotator project</div>Tswikiadminhttps://wiki.janastu.org/index.php?title=Annotatist_Participants&diff=32562Annotatist Participants2015-05-31T08:01:23Z<p>Tswikiadmin: /* Participants */</p>
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<div>=== Participants ===<br />
<br />
Pinar Dag, Activist and data journalist, Dag Medya<br />
<br />
Yagmur Denizhan, Faculty at Bogazici University, Electrical and Electronics Engineering<br />
<br />
T B Dinesh, Technical Director at Janastu<br />
<br />
Orkut Murat Yılmaz, Geodesy and Open Street Maps, Bogazici University<br />
<br />
Semiray Girgis, Physicist and Library Sciences, Adana<br />
<br />
Onur Gungor, PhD candidate in Computer Engineering ('''local organizer''')<br />
<br />
Emrah Guder, MS candidate in Computer Engineering <br />
<br />
Çiğdem Kaya, Industrial Design, ITU<br />
<br />
Lambert Meertens, Another Website is Possible, Amsterdam and Ayvalık<br />
<br />
Anil Menon, Fiction Writer<br />
<br />
Kavita Philip, Faculty at UC Irvine, History<br />
<br />
Fulya Sari, Educational technologist, information architect, user experience researcher<br />
<br />
Murat Seyhan, MS candidate in Computer Engineering<br />
<br />
Asli Telli, Faculty at Sehir University, Cinema and Television<br />
<br />
Sadık Tekgöz, System and Network Administrator, Telecommunications and Informatics Technologies Research Center (TETAM)<br />
<br />
Esma, Fahrettin and Burak (grad students at Şehir with related research interest) <br />
<br />
Suzan Uskudarli, Faculty at Bogazici U, Computer Engineering ('''local organizer''')<br />
<br />
Kivanc Yazan, Undergrad in Computer Engineering (Bogazici)<br />
<br />
<br />
''Tele participation'': via meet.jit.si/...HugOften link<br />
<br />
Winnie and Stephaie from Labor-tech group <br />
<br />
Ward Smith, Library Science, Irvine, CA<br />
<br />
Benjamin Young, Hypothesis and CouchDB<br />
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[http://wiki.janastu.org/Annotatist Back to Annotatist page]<br />
<br />
If you participated, please add yourself (thanks) or Contact annotatist [@] janastu [.] org<br />
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[[Category:Annotatist]]</div>Tswikiadminhttps://wiki.janastu.org/index.php?title=Annotatist_Participants&diff=32561Annotatist Participants2015-05-31T07:57:51Z<p>Tswikiadmin: /* Participants */</p>
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<div>=== Participants ===<br />
<br />
Pinar Dag, Activist and data journalist, Dag Medya<br />
<br />
Yagmur Denizhan, Faculty at Bogazici University, Electrical and Electronics Engineering<br />
<br />
T B Dinesh, Technical Director at Janastu<br />
<br />
Orkut Murat Yılmaz, Geodesy and Open Street Maps, Bogazici University<br />
<br />
Semiray Girgis, Physicist and Library Sciences, Adana<br />
<br />
Onur Gungor, PhD candidate in Computer Engineering<br />
<br />
Emrah Guder, MS candidate in Computer Engineering - between Friday 3-4 pm - Saturday ...<br />
<br />
Çiğdem Kaya, Industrial Design, ITU<br />
<br />
Lambert Meertens, Another Website is Possible, Amsterdam and Ayvalık<br />
<br />
Anil Menon, Fiction Writer<br />
<br />
Kavita Philip, Faculty at UC Irvine, History<br />
<br />
Fulya Sari, Educational technologist, information architect, user experience researcher<br />
<br />
Murat Seyhan, MS candidate in Computer Engineering<br />
<br />
Asli Telli, Faculty at Sehir University, Cinema and Television<br />
<br />
Sadık Tekgöz, System and Network Administrator, Telecommunications and Informatics Technologies Research Center (TETAM)<br />
<br />
Esma, Fahrettin and Burak (grad students at Şehir with related research interest) <br />
<br />
Ward Smith, Library Science, Irvine, CA<br />
<br />
Suzan Uskudarli, Faculty at Bogazici U, Computer Engineering (local organizer)<br />
<br />
Kivanc Yazan, Undergrad in Computer Engineering (Bogazici)<br />
<br />
<br />
''Tele participation'': via meet.jit.si/...HugOften link<br />
<br />
Winnie and Stephaie from Labor-tech group <br />
<br />
Benjamin Young, Hypothesis and CouchDB<br />
<br />
[http://wiki.janastu.org/Annotatist Back to Annotatist page]<br />
<br />
If you participated, please add yourself (thanks) or Contact annotatist [@] janastu [.] org<br />
<br />
[[Category:Annotatist]]</div>Tswikiadminhttps://wiki.janastu.org/index.php?title=Annotatist_Participants&diff=32560Annotatist Participants2015-05-31T07:56:45Z<p>Tswikiadmin: /* Participants */</p>
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<div>=== Participants ===<br />
<br />
Pinar Dag, Activist and data journalist, Dag Medya<br />
<br />
Yagmur Denizhan, Faculty at Bogazici University, Electrical and Electronics Engineering<br />
<br />
T B Dinesh, Technical Director at Janastu<br />
<br />
Orkut Murat Yılmaz, Geodesy and Open Street Maps, Bogazici University<br />
<br />
Semiray Girgis, Physicist and Library Sciences, Adana<br />
<br />
Onur Gungor, PhD candidate in Computer Engineering<br />
<br />
Emrah Guder, MS candidate in Computer Engineering - between Friday 3-4 pm - Saturday ...<br />
<br />
Çiğdem Kaya, Industrial Design, ITU<br />
<br />
Lambert Meertens, Another Website is Possible<br />
<br />
Anil Menon, Fiction Writer<br />
<br />
Kavita Philip, Faculty at UC Irvine, History<br />
<br />
Fulya Sari, Educational technologist, information architect, user experience researcher<br />
<br />
Murat Seyhan, MS candidate in Computer Engineering<br />
<br />
Asli Telli, Faculty at Sehir University, Cinema and Television<br />
<br />
Sadık Tekgöz, System and Network Administrator, Telecommunications and Informatics Technologies Research Center (TETAM)<br />
<br />
Esma, Fahrettin and Burak (grad students at Şehir with related research interest) <br />
<br />
Ward Smith, Library Science, Irvine, CA<br />
<br />
Suzan Uskudarli, Faculty at Bogazici U, Computer Engineering (local organizer)<br />
<br />
Kivanc Yazan, Undergrad in Computer Engineering (Bogazici)<br />
<br />
<br />
''Tele participation'': via meet.jit.si/...HugOften link<br />
<br />
Winnie and Stephaie from Labor-tech group <br />
<br />
Benjamin Young, Hypothesis and CouchDB<br />
<br />
[http://wiki.janastu.org/Annotatist Back to Annotatist page]<br />
<br />
If you participated, please add yourself (thanks) or Contact annotatist [@] janastu [.] org<br />
<br />
[[Category:Annotatist]]</div>Tswikiadminhttps://wiki.janastu.org/index.php?title=Annotatist_Participants&diff=32559Annotatist Participants2015-05-31T07:53:18Z<p>Tswikiadmin: /* Participants */</p>
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<div>=== Participants ===<br />
<br />
Pinar Dag, Activist and data journalist, Dag Medya<br />
<br />
Yagmur Denizhan, Faculty at Bogazici University, Electrical and Electronics Engineering<br />
<br />
T B Dinesh, Technical Director at Janastu<br />
<br />
Orkut Murat Yılmaz, Geodesy and Open Street Maps, Bogazici University<br />
<br />
Semiray Girgis, Physicist and Library Sciences, Adana<br />
<br />
Onur Gungor, PhD candidate in Computer Engineering<br />
<br />
Emrah Guder, MS candidate in Computer Engineering - between Friday 3-4 pm - Saturday ...<br />
<br />
Çiğdem Kaya, Industrial Design, ITU<br />
<br />
Lambert Meertens, Another Website is Possible<br />
<br />
Anil Menon, Fiction Writer<br />
<br />
Kavita Philip, Faculty at UC Irvine, History<br />
<br />
Fulya Sari, Educational technologist, information architect, user experience researcher<br />
<br />
Murat Seyhan, MS candidate in Computer Engineering<br />
<br />
Asli Telli, Faculty at Sehir University, Cinema and Television<br />
<br />
Sadık Tekgöz, System and Network Administrator, Telecommunications and Informatics Technologies Research Center (TETAM)<br />
<br />
Esma, Fahrettin and Burak (grad students at Şehir with related research interest) <br />
<br />
Suzan Uskudarli, Faculty at Bogazici U, Computer Engineering (local organizer)<br />
<br />
Kivanc Yazan, Undergrad in Computer Engineering (Bogazici)<br />
<br />
<br />
''Tele participation'': via meet.jit.si ...HugOften link<br />
<br />
Winnie and Stephaie from Labor-tech group <br />
<br />
Benjamin Young, Hypothesis and CouchDB<br />
<br />
[http://wiki.janastu.org/Annotatist Back to Annotatist page]<br />
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Add your self. You are welcome. Contact annotatist [@] janastu [.] org<br />
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[[Category:Annotatist]]</div>Tswikiadminhttps://wiki.janastu.org/index.php?title=Annotatist&diff=32558Annotatist2015-05-31T07:36:24Z<p>Tswikiadmin: /* schedule */</p>
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===AnnotatIST - Annotate ISTanbul gathering===<br />
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Bogazici University<br />
[http://tetam.boun.edu.tr/ TETAM] - Rasathane, Kandilli, Istanbul ([[Annotatist FAQ]]: directions and schedule rationale)<br />
28 - 30 May 2015 **see schedule details**<br />
[[Annotatist Participants]]<br />
<br />
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Digitized, distributed knowledge was supposed to herald a new golden age of collaborative thinking and doing. With physical objects we have used annotations as a way to markup or embellish an existing document during collaborative sessions. And indeed with digital objects on the Web, we now have a range of tools and techniques for annotating them. Yet the most creative and engaging forms of collaboration currently come to us via centralized corporate services such as that of FaceBook or Google Docs, not via independent, interoperable and open frameworks that support collaboration specific decentralized repositories. <br />
<br />
We propose to discuss together the potential of semantic annotation tools with the creativity of real-world scenarios of making and sharing annotations, interlinking and harvesting these, and modifying, combining, and transforming pieces of knowledge to support innovative forms of collaborative thinking, making, and doing. Digitized forms such as web-based text, image, audio, video objects and subject ontologies offer unprecedented opportunities for people to work together and produce collaborative knowledge across widely different geographical locations and technical accordances. We also reflect on the freedom of expression, privacy and personalization needs of these emerging modes of internet usage.<br />
<br />
The intention of this gathering is to bring together people who have been working on annotation frameworks and those who see the potential in annotating web documents. We aim to model a space and a form of technological practice, in an experimental collaborative workshop. After 25 years of the Web and over a trillion web pages, it is time to embrace the annotation game and transform our collaborative tools.<br />
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==schedule==<br />
*28 - pre event - a long afternoon of introductions and Friday schedule<br />
<br />
People start arriving at the venue post lunch.<br />
By 4pm we can start the event introductions.<br />
Labor-tech (LA) connect at 7pm <br />
We go on till 9pm including dinner on location<br />
<br />
*29 - why annotate today - talks and discussions (10am until 5pm+)<br />
<br />
10am arrive. Start at 10:30am.<br />
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*30 - hack meet and follow up <br />
<br />
10am until .. Saturday schedule to be worked on Friday<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Generally:<br />
The idea of social semantic web and how annotations can address the needs of the emerging internet users such as low-literate, storytelling and content curation.<br />
<br />
Technically:<br />
Interoperable, federated and contextual annotations, and annotation containers<br />
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'''Tele participation:''' Some people who were not able to attend asked about remote participation. <br />
We tried out http://meet.jit.si which uses WebRTC and the performance was not half bad. We are going to try it. <br />
If you are interested, please do try it out to check that your browser is compatible. <br />
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Recent Annotation Meets:<br />
[iAnnotate.org iAnnotate] and [hybridpublishing.org/2015/05/ Hybrid Publishing 2015]<br />
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Links of interest<br />
<br />
[http://wiki.janastu.org/wiki/AnnotationUseCase Annotation Use Case]<br />
<br />
[http://iuf.alternatifbilisim.org Alternatif Bilisim] <br />
<br />
[http://www.w3.org/annotation/ Web Annotation Working Group]<br />
<br />
(more to come)<br />
<br />
Short url for this doc: http://wiki.janastu.org/Annotatist<br />
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[[Category:Annotatist]][[Category:Events]]</div>Tswikiadminhttps://wiki.janastu.org/index.php?title=Annotatist&diff=32537Annotatist2015-05-26T16:18:41Z<p>Tswikiadmin: </p>
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<div>[[File:Oliveconf0.jpg|thumb|left| Olives for Annotatist [[:Category:Annotatist|more]] ]] <br />
===AnnotatIST - Annotate ISTanbul gathering===<br />
<br />
Bogazici University<br />
TETAM - Rasathane, Kandilli, Istanbul ([[Annotatist FAQ]]: directions etc)<br />
28 - 30 May 2015<br />
[[Annotatist Participants]]<br />
<br />
<br />
Digitized, distributed knowledge was supposed to herald a new golden age of collaborative thinking and doing. With physical objects we have used annotations as a way to markup or embellish an existing document during collaborative sessions. And indeed with digital objects on the Web, we now have a range of tools and techniques for annotating them. Yet the most creative and engaging forms of collaboration currently come to us via centralized corporate services such as that of FaceBook or Google Docs, not via independent, interoperable and open frameworks that support collaboration specific decentralized repositories. <br />
<br />
We propose to discuss together the potential of semantic annotation tools with the creativity of real-world scenarios of making and sharing annotations, interlinking and harvesting these, and modifying, combining, and transforming pieces of knowledge to support innovative forms of collaborative thinking, making, and doing. Digitized forms such as web-based text, image, audio, video objects and subject ontologies offer unprecedented opportunities for people to work together and produce collaborative knowledge across widely different geographical locations and technical accordances. We also reflect on the freedom of expression, privacy and personalization needs of these emerging modes of internet usage.<br />
<br />
The intention of this gathering is to bring together people who have been working on annotation frameworks and those who see the potential in annotating web documents. We aim to model a space and a form of technological practice, in an experimental collaborative workshop. After 25 years of the Web and over a trillion web pages, it is time to embrace the annotation game and transform our collaborative tools. <br />
<br />
<br />
*28 - pre event - a long afternoon of introductions <br />
(start at 4pm with flexible end time? - LA connect at 7pm and we go on till 9pm including dinner on location)<br />
<br />
*29 - why annotate today - talks and discussions (10am until 5pm+)<br />
<br />
*30 - hack meet and follow up (10am until ..)<br />
<br />
note: reaching Kandilli campus by 10am is easy and fast by taking a boat that reaches Kandilli boat terminal by 9:45am as the campus bus will be waiting there to take people to the Kandilli Campus. Venue will be the room with a view - roof top at TETAM.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Generally:<br />
The idea of social semantic web and how annotations can address the needs of the emerging internet users such as low-literate, storytelling and content curation needs.<br />
<br />
Technical:<br />
Interoperable, federated and contextual annotations, and annotation containers<br />
<br />
<br />
Recent Annotation Meets<br />
iAnnotate.org <br />
hybridpublishing.org/2015/05/<br />
<br />
Other links<br />
wiki.janastu.org/wiki/AnnotationUseCase <br />
iuf.alternatifbilisim.org <br />
(more to come)<br />
<br />
Short url for this doc: http://wiki.janastu.org/Annotatist<br />
Note: Short URL http://j.mp/annotatist linking to gdoc will be deprecated:<br />
<br />
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<div>"Some Antics" ! NOTES ON SEMANTIC WEB TOWARDS REFLECTIONS ON ALIPI<br />
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The web: some antics<br />
Aug 28th 2007<br />
From Economist.com<br />
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The long-promised “semantic” web is starting to take shape<br />
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FOR all the tricks that the world wide web can perform, it still resembles a collection of one-trick ponies rather than a concerted cavalry charge. You can book an airline ticket, hire a car at your destination, arrange concert tickets for the evening that you arrive and even get directions from the airport to the concert hall. But you have to do it all yourself, one element at a time. You cannot delegate the process to a website as you might delegate it to your secretary or your long-suffering spouse.<br />
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You can, however, delegate some things. At least, you can if you are Rael Dornfest, a technologist and entrepreneur from Portland, Oregon. When Mr Dornfest e-mails his business partners about meetings and interesting titbits worth archiving, he copies the e-mail to his assistant, Sandy. Though she cannot yet organise his evenings in foreign cities, she can run his diary. She also runs his address book and forwards reminders from his wife to his mobile phone without being asked.<br />
<br />
Sandy, of course, is not a person. She is a piece of software that Mr Dornfest and his colleagues are developing and whom, once she is thoroughly tested, he hopes to sell to a wider world. She is one example of a long-promised technological advance: the semantic web.<br />
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The semantic web is so called because it aspires to make the web readable by machines as well as humans, by adding special tags, technically known as metadata, to its pages. Whereas the web today provides links between documents which humans read and extract meaning from, the semantic web aims to provide computers with the means to extract useful information from data accessible on the internet, be it on web pages, in calendars or inside spreadsheets.<br />
<br />
It does so using a trio of new technologies: the Resource Description Framework (RDF), the Web Ontology Language (OWL), and the SPARQL query language. Together, they allow computers to group objects and their features—from prices and measurements to locations and user ratings—into meaningful relationships and hierarchies, by analysing their associated metadata.<br />
<br />
The idea is that eventually such metadata will be incorporated into every web page and electronic document. But that is not the case at the moment, so a further layer of software is needed to infer the metadata from web pages, e-mails and other electronic documents. Whatever their origin, the metadata labels can then be used to do useful things. A piece of software can, for example, compare goods that are similar but not identical and then recommend the best (or the cheapest, or the best value for money) to a potential customer. In the field of travel, attaching metadata to everything makes it possible to link up airline schedules, car rental and hotel bookings.<br />
<br />
If this sounds eerily similar to the kind of thing a human travel agent used to do in the days before the non-semantic web almost killed his profession, that is exactly what Gregg Brockway has in mind. Mr Brockway is the co-founder of TripIt, a firm based in San Francisco. His intention is that people should be able to dump all of their travel details (electronic tickets, car-hire bookings, hotel reservations and so on) straight from any reservation site into a central repository, which TripIt will run. Then RDF, OWL and SPARQL—or, at least, TripIt’s implementations of them—will sort the information. The software will group the data appropriately and annotate the result with weather forecasts, driving directions, restaurant recommendations and even the travel plans of friends and family. It will then send the results back to the user—or, in the case of the driving directions, directly to the car’s navigation device.<br />
<br />
Another area where the semantic web may make a contribution is personal finance. Even if they have not heard the term, most people will be familiar with the idea of what a company called Wesabe refers to as “bank puke”. This firm, which is also based in San Francisco, plans to make money by clearing up such puke and turning it into useful information. The idea is that its customers will be able to feed their bank statements, credit-card accounts and so on into the system as if they were throwing reams of paper onto an accountant’s desk.<br />
<br />
Wesabe’s software sifts through all the transactions and makes comparisons between users. It can then do some of the things that a human financial adviser might, such as recommending to a customer a different car-repair shop if other customers in the same area are using a cheaper one. Not yet, perhaps, a cavalry charge. But not a bad performance of formation riding.<br />
<br />
Source: Economist.com<br />
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<br />
2011 Oct 6<br />
<br />
This week Steve Jobs passed away at the far-too-young-for-anyone-to-die age of 56, and India launched Aakash, a tablet computer seen by many as the ipad-killer, the restoftheworld's rejoinder to OLPC's xo laptop. Steve Jobs was truly brilliant, and had a unique, rarecombination of geek and design talent. His work represents some of the best moves in technology of our age. Will the next age be even better, with brilliantly designed technology being accessible not only to elites in the rich North, but to the many millions of the rising South?<br />
<br />
Telecoms and Education Minister Kapil Sibal said today: "The rich have access to the digital world, the poor and ordinary have been excluded. Aakash will end that digital divide." <br />
India has a long history of appropriate-technology design: e.g., the creators of the simputer should also be remembered as precursors to this moment. Even if their design did not directly make it to the commercial market, it is experiments such as theirs that made other steps forward become possible.<br />
<br />
2011 Oct 7 <br />
Ada Lovelace Day.<br />
<br />
http://mindshift.kqed.org/2011/10/ada-lovelace-day-celebrates-women-in-stem/ says:<br />
<br />
"many have never heard of Ada Lovelace, even though she’s credited with writing the first computer program.<br />
If you haven’t heard of her, here’s some background.<br />
Born in 1815, Ada Lovelace was the daughter of the poet Lord Byron, although he had no relationship with her and died when she was only nine. Ada pursued her interests in mathematics, studying with some of the best-known mathematicians of her time. In 1833, she was introduced to Charles Babbage, with whom she worked and corresponded about his early computing machines. She also translated the Italian mathematician Luigi Menabrea’s memoir on Babbage’s proposed machine, the Analytical Engine, and in doing so added her own notes to the translation. These notes included an algorithm designed to be processed by the machine — the first computer program."<br />
<br />
<br />
WASHINGTON, October 6, 2011 -<br />
http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/NEWS/0,,contentMDK:23018750~pagePK:64257043~piPK:437376~theSitePK:4607,00.html<br />
<br />
"In a global economy that depends on sophisticated innovation and knowledge to drive growth and wealth, a new World Bank report on higher education suggests that low- and middle-income countries should resist the temptation to establish world-class universities to cash in on research earnings and court global prestige before educating their own citizens to high tertiary standards.<br />
According to the new report, The Road to Academic Excellence: The Making of World-Class Research Universities, which charts the experience of 11 leading public and private research universities in nine countries from Africa, Asia, Latin America, and Eastern Europe, elite research universities are outpacing the smartest companies in the world with their original research. In one recent global study on new patents, for example, leading universities and research institutions are driving more scientific strides in biotechnology than private companies and firms."</div>Tswikiadminhttps://wiki.janastu.org/index.php?title=Technoscience:Current_events&diff=32526Technoscience:Current events2015-05-26T09:38:46Z<p>Tswikiadmin: moved Technoscience:Current events to Reflections on Semantic Web and Alipi:&#32;was in current events</p>
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