W3C Day, November 29, 2001, Keio Mita Campus (Tokyo)
Annotea is a Web-based shared annotation system based on a general-purpose open RDF infrastructure, where annotations are modeled as a class of metadata. Annotations are viewed as statements made by an author about a Web document. Annotations are external to the documents and can be stored in one or more annotation servers. One of the goals of this project has been to re-use as much existing W3C technology as possible. We have reached it mostly by combining RDF with XPointer, XLink, and HTTP. We have also implemented an instance of our system using the Amaya editor/browser and a generic RDF database, accessible through an Apache HTTP server. In this implementation, the merging of annotations with documents takes place within the client.
I will illustrate my talk by doing live annotation demos with Amaya.
Keywords: Annotations, Metadata, Semantic Web, RDF, XPointer, XML, World-Wide Web
Annotea : http://www.w3.org/2001/Annotea/
Amaya : http://www.w3.org/Amaya/
W3C : http://www.w3.org/
José joined W3C's technical staff, at INRIA, in January 1996. He participates in the development of Amaya, and in various other projects, including W3C's hypertext mailing list archives. José holds a Ph.D. in computer science from the Université de Rennes I (1997) and a specialization degree in computer networks from the École Supérieure d'Électricité (SUPELEC), Rennes. He has been working in the Annotea project since its beginning and is responsible for its client port in Amaya. José was member of the electronic commerce and security paper review committee for the WW9 and WWW10 conferences. His research interests include distributed systems and W3 security.