Draft charter for an annotation group at W3C

W3C has published a draft charter for a possible Annotation Working Group. The mission of the Group, which may be proposed to be added to the Digital Publishing Activity, is to define a generic data model for annotations, and define the basic infrastructural elements to make it deployable in browsers and reading systems.

The goal of this draft is to provide a framework for a public discussion on the creation of group. Community perspectives on the scope of this proposed charter at a Workshop on Annotation that W3C organizes in April, co-located with the I Annotate conference in San Francisco. The current plan is to finalize the charter soon after that event. Once the charter is finalized, it will be reviewed by the director and W3M and then sent to W3C members for formal approval.

Comments and questions as well as general expressions of interest and support are expected on the public-annotation@w3.org mailing list.