annotating for individual experiences
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Interpretation and Personalisation: Enriching Individual Experience by Annotating On-line MaterialsTRANSCRIPT
Interpretation and Personalisation: Enriching Individual Experience by
Annotating On-line Materials
Behzad Kateli, Liddy Nevile
La Trobe University
Australia
Presentation Overview
Quinkan Matchbox What are Annotations? How can they be used? Annotation Tools Amaya and Annotea AnnoSource and FOAF
Quinkan Matchbox
‘Quinkan Country’ is located at Cape York Peninsula far north Queensland Australia
Home to one of the largest collections of rock art (cave) paintings in the world
At least 36,000 years old The Quinkan Matchbox is a virtual museum
for Quinkan culture with the aim of repatriating Quinkan culture
Rock Art Images
What are annotations?
Attachments to Web documents: Notes Comments Interpretations Reviews Explanations External Remarks in any modality…..
How can they be used?
Can be used to……. Add content Delete content Replace content Change the form of presentation ….of the existing content - changing what is already there.
How can they be used?
Can be used for making notes, adding comments etc by……
Students doing research Experts adding research results People offering alternative interpretations Accessibility experts augmenting content for
people with special needs Etc
Annotea
W3C annotation server Uses W3C standards and technologies Uses RDF metadata framework User accessible Create, store, edit and delete annotations
server Annotea
Annotation Servers
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Annotates
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Annotates
Original and annotated resources
User/Author
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Annotation Servers
Amaya
Free W3C web browser and authoring tool. Standards compliant – up to date View, build, modify web pages. Annotation feature
Education Use CaseRebecca is an international student from Greece visiting an Australian university. She is studying computer science and is not familiar with English technical terms or course structures.
Mary, the computer science lecturer, decides to annotate the course information web pages in Greek using the on-line translation tool Babel Fish
Use Case Cont.
Example
Cultural Use Case
Julia is field researcher who works for the ‘World Museum’. She is gathering information on ‘Imjim’, a rock art painting located at Lakefield National Park near Laura. As Aboriginal Elders (always multi-lingual) may not be able to read or write English, Julia includes spoken interpretations.
Archaeologist
Anthropologist
Historian
Use Case Cont.
As annotations Julia can add: Images Links to other resources Links to Audio/Visual Materials…..
Let’s go back to 2003 ….
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Tommy George inspecting red rock ochre.
"A lot of paintings are made in red."
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and lots more…..
<rdf:RDF
xmlns:rdf='http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#'
xmlns:NS0='http://quinkan.org/index.html#'>
<rdf:Description rdf:about='#red'>
<rdf:type rdf:resource='http://quinkan.org/index.html#colour'/>
</rdf:Description>
<rdf:Description rdf:about='#A0'>
<rdf:type rdf:resource='http://quinkan.org/index.html#person'/>
<NS0:has-name rdf:resource='#TommyGeorge'/>
</rdf:Description>
<rdf:Description rdf:about='#AADXEVJJKH'>
<rdf:type rdf:resource='http://quinkan.org/index.html#Getty-colour'/>
</rdf:Description>
<rdf:Description rdf:about='#TommyGeorge'>
<rdf:type rdf:resource='http://quinkan.org/index.html#name'/>
</rdf:Description>
<rdf:Description rdf:about='#r23g67b98i'>
<rdf:type rdf:resource='http://quinkan.org/index.html#Q-colour-code'/>
<NS0:is-same-as rdf:resource='#098734827'/>
<NS0:is-same-as rdf:resource='#AADXEVJJKH'/>
</rdf:Description>
<rdf:Description rdf:about='#098734827'>
<rdf:type rdf:resource='http://quinkan.org/index.html#CIMIcolour'/>
</rdf:Description>
<rdf:Description rdf:about='#pfgjner25243'>
AnnoSource
Experimental annotation client Extends creator information Uses Friend-of-a-Friend (FOAF) Specification
Who is the author? Where is their role and position Where are they from?
http://matchbox01.cs.latrobe.edu.au/annosource/
FOAF and Vcard
VCard – A Virtual business card specification. Used in conjunction with FOAF to describe
creator Role, Position, Region, Locality, Country Any other specification can be used
Example: Describing Aboriginal Elder
Foaf:Person Title: Mr Given Name: Tommy Family Name: George
Vcard Title: Quinkan Community Member Role: Thypan Elder Region: Laura Locality: Cape York, Queensland Country: Australia
Example: RDF Syntax <r:RDF xmlns:foaf="http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/" xmlns:vCard=http://www.w3.org/2001/vcard-rdf/3.0#>
<foaf: Person><foaf: title> Mr </foaf:title><foaf: givenName> Tommy </foaf: givenName><foaf: family_name> George </foaf: family_name>
<vCard: Title> Quinkan Community Member <vCard: Title><vCard: role> Elder </vCard:role> <vCard:ADR r:parseType="Resource"> <vCard: region> Laura </vCard: region> <vCard: locality>Cape York, Queensland </vCard:
locality> <vCard: country> Australia </vCard: country></vCard:ADR>
</foaf: Person>
Example: Describing an Academic
Foaf:Person Title: Dr. Given Name: Jane Family Name: Doe
Vcard Title: Head of Field Research - Quinkan Rock-art Role: Archaeologist Region: Bundoora Locality: La Trobe University, Victoria Country: Australia
Future Development
Integrate IMS/DC AccessForAll user profile. Allow display, control and content preferences
Extend IMS/DC Content element to increase the richness of the resource Provide content in range of language-levels Accommodate location based services Reflect user interests and perspectives
Thank you.