Interesting/Random thoughts from DH2012

[Faith]

Open Annotation standard looks like what we wanted for "locspecs" - so sometime soon (i.e. the next time we go over the ontologies) I think we should change all the locspec references to open annotation references (http://www.w3.org/community/openannotation/)

Someone mentioned another ontology which didn't allow you to define nationality by linking to the country of origin. I don't think we currently do either but it would be an great addition.

Merge and Degradation classes are currently subclasses of Transformation. I've been thinking that they should also subclass Gain and Loss (respectively). So:

Event:Merge (subclass: Transform, Gain), Subject: LargerObject, Object: SmallerObject, From: Group(LargerObject, SmallerObject), To: LargerObject

How do we model "to see" - does one entity gain knowledge of the location of another entity? How does that differentiate from "to hear"? Do they also gain knowledge of appearance? (case example - Midsummer Night's Dream: characters infected by the flower fall in love with the first thing they see)

Clea (latest version of Catma - http://catma.de/) looking very promising as an annotation system. Open source (code will be going up on GitHub soon). Needs some expansion for our needs but could potentially save us a bunch of development time to create a OM/Stories annotator. Someone wrote a plugin for an earlier version of Catma which allowed you to go to the video section that related to the section of script that you were annotating. Probably not going to work with their latest version of the software but shows possibilities.

Also worth a look: Lore - http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.175.5155

Probably more random thoughts to come...

Faith