Working with the W3C Web Annotation Standards and Islandora

Slides that accompanied the talk "Working with the W3C Web Annotation Standards and Islandora", presented at the Open Repositories 2018 Conference, June 4-7, 2018, Bozeman, Montana, USA.With the recent publication of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) standards for annotations, annotation is now becoming a formally recognized and acknowledged activity on the web. It is now possible to annotate digital files on the web, persist annotations over time, group annotations by a resource, and discover annotations that are related by subject or content. The Digital Scholarship Unit developed the Web Annotations Utility Module that leverages W3C standards and libraries supporting those standards to allow for the production of annotations on different content types in the Islandora open-source repository ecosystem. This session will discuss the challenges and solutions in adopting and integrating the standards and various libraries into the islandora ecosystem and in handling the annotations as first class objects on the web