Enriching Individual Cultural Experience by Annotating On-line

Materials

Liddy Nevile, Behzad Kateli

La Trobe University

Australia

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 notes, comments etc by……

Students doing research Experts adding research results People offering alternative interpretations Adaptability experts augmenting content for

accessibility Etc

Annotea

W3C annotation server Uses W3C standards and technologies Uses RDF metadata framework User accessible Create, store, edit and delete annotations

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Annotea

W3C annotation server Uses W3C standards and technologies Uses RDF metadata framework User accessible Create, store, edit and delete annotations

server Annotea

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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

Multilingual Use CaseRebecca is from Greece and is not familiar with English cultural terms or course structures.

Rebecca’s friend Mary annotates some Web pages in Greek using the on-line translation tool Babel Fish.

Use Case Cont.

Example

Cultural Interpretation Use Case

Julia is field researcher 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.

Indigenous Elder

Anthropologist

Historian

Use Case Cont.

As annotations user can add: Images Links to other resources Links to Audio/Visual Materials…..

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Tommy George inspecting red rock ochre.

"A lot of paintings are made in red."

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Tommy George inspecting red rock ochre.

"A lot of paintings are made in red."

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Tommy George inspecting red rock ochre.

"A lot of paintings are made in red."

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Tommy George inspecting red rock ochre.

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<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>

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.