The Open Annotation Core Data Model specifies an interoperable framework for creating associations between related resources, annotations, using a methodology which conforms to the Architecture of the World Wide Web. Open Annotations can easily be shared between platforms, with sufficient richness of expression to satisfy complex requirements while remaining simple enough to also allow for…

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VIAF (Virtual International Autority File) is an OCLC service — built in cooperation with national libraries and other partners — that virtually combines multiple LAM (Library Archives Museum) name authority files into a single name authority service.

GeoDia (jee-oh-DEE-uh, short for “geodiachronicity”) is intended to provide a simple, intuitive way for people to visualize the temporal, geographic, and material aspects of ancient Mediterranean civilizations.

DCW will be a weekly space to find syntheses of field-specific material, to read about and discuss trends, hot-button topics, highlights, lowlights, and everything in between. A place, in other words, to make a narrative out of an info stream.

Web Archiving Arrives: Results from the NDSA Web Archiving Survey « The Signal: Digital Preservation. The NDSA Content Working Group, one of the five working groups of the National Digital Stewardship Alliance focuses on identifying content already preserved, investigating guidelines for the selection of significant content, discovery of at-risk digital content or collections, and matching orphan content with…

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A digital experience of exploration and discovery: The Environment & Society Portal | Ant, Spider, Bee. As the Internet delivers ever-more specific search results and personalized content, we increasingly miss out on surprising connections. Our project, the Environment & Society Portal, offers something different: an exploratory experience that lets users visualize spatial, temporal, and thematic relationships….

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Our Annotated HTML Video Player: Free and Open Source | Rural West Initiative. Recently, though, the Mozilla Foundation’s “Web Made Movies” project has been inspiring developers to think about ways, as they put it, “to make video and the Web play nicer together.” The result has been a new javascript codebase called “Popcorn,” that provides…

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