The W3C Open Annotation Community Group http://www.w3.org/community/openannotation/ is pleased to announce three public meetings introducing the Open Annotation Data Model Community Specification.

The Open Annotation Core Data Model http://www.openannotation.org/spec/core/ specifies an interoperable framework for creating associations between related resources, annotations, using a methodology that 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 the most common use cases, such as attaching a piece of text to a single web resource.

These day-long public roll-outs, carried out in concert with the Annotation Ontology and the Open Annotation Collaboration, and made possible by generous funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, will inform digital humanities and sciences computing developers, curators of digital collections and scholars using digital content about the W3C Open Annotation Community Group’s work.

Participants will learn about the data model's core features and advanced modules through tutorials, a showcase of existing implementations, Q&A sessions with community implementers and live demonstrations.

Topics will include:

* The Open Annotation Data Model * The W3C Open Annotation Community Group * Existing implementations * Developer tools & resources

Rollout times and locations:

* U.S. West Coast Rollout – 09 April 2013 at Stanford University Registration: https://www.eventville.com/Catalog/EventRegistration1.asp?Eventid=1010270

* U.S. East Coast Rollout – 06 May 2013 at the University of Maryland Registration: https://www.eventville.com/Catalog/EventRegistration1.asp?Eventid=1010271

* U.K. Rollout – 24 June 2013 at the University of Manchester Registration: <https://www.eventville.com/Catalog/EventRegistration1.asp?Eventid=1010272)

There is no registration fee but RSVP (online) is required. RSVP for a rollout near you using one of the links above.

For more information and individual agendas, see: http://www.openannotation.org/RolloutInfo.html