Europeana CreativeAnnotation API

Sergiu Gordea – Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH

The Hague, 25.09.2014

Outline

Annotations Why? EuCreative Scenarios Annotation types Annotation Model Annotation API Annotation client(s) Moderation What‘s next

Annotations? Why?

Definitions in Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annotation

An annotation is metadata (e.g. a comment, explanation, presentational markup) attached to text, image, or other data. Often annotations refer to a specific part of the original data.

Uses by students: Students often highlight or underline passages in books in order to refer back to key phrases easily, or add marginalia to aid studying

Uses in source control: The "annotate" function (also known as "blame" or "praise") used in source control systems such as Team Foundation Server and Subversion determines who committed changes to the source code into the repository. (also: taging/versioning, linking to tickets)

Imaging: In the digital imaging community the term annotation is commonly used for visible metadata superimposed on an image without changing the underlying master image, such as sticky notes, virtual laser pointers, circles, arrows, and black-outs

EuCreative Scenarios

Social Networks

(Geotagging sounds)

Tourism

(Image Tagging & Categorizations)

History Education

– Image annotations (educational)

Design Pilot: User Sets

Annotation Types

Object tags: Simple Tags

Semantic Tagshttp://dbpedia.org/page/Cluj-Napoca_National_Theatre

Image Annotations Simple (Tags)

Semantic Tagshttp://dbpedia.org/page/Johann_Strauss(Vater)

Annotation Types

User Sets - Scalable solution for content curation

User Sets

Content selection criteria: Paintings, fotos, posters Licence: Open for Reuse Visual content:

One person,Few persons,

Groups,(eventually pets) Content quality:

• 500+px

User Sets

Metadata: Title Description Year Collection/Provider

Tags/Classifications: Easy/Mediu/Challenging Selfie/Group/Art German art/Flemish art/etc. Renaissance / Symbolism /expressionism/ etc.

Annotation Model

Open Annotation Core Data Model (OAC) W3C – OA Community Group Interoperable Framework for Annotations (http://www.openannotation.org/spec/core/core.html#BodyTarget)

Annotation Model (implementation)

Annotation Architecture

Annotation (REST) API

Annotation client(s)

Annotorious: http://annotorious.github.io/demos.html

Moderation

Concerns: Public/Private Annotation Identification of good/popular Annotation/Tags Identification of innapropriate Annotations/Tags Moderation through community Simple Tag to Semantic Tag conversion Semantic enrichment of EDM metadata ?

What‘s next

Search Annotations Search Objects by Annotations Annotorious Plugins User sets – content curation

Content Reuse Framework Domain specific annotations

E.g. Music score annotations

Thank you!

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Questions?