Our Landscape

[Benjamin Young <by...@bigbluehat.com>]

Hi friends!


The underpinning vision of creating the Apache Annotator (incubating) project was to give Annotator.js a future and to build toward a greater, more inter-operable future for annotation built (in part) on the Web Annotation raft of specification.


Our incubator proposal presented the Annotator.js history, the recent Web Annotation specification work, as well as several projects built by folks who signed-up to be on the committers list here:

https://wiki.apache.org/incubator/AnnotatorProposal


I'd like us to create a "landscape" of what's available, who owns/licenses what, and decide what (of those things) can be brought into this collective project.


To do that, we need each of the owners (aka license holders) of these various projects to state whether they'd like to migrate their code here. Once we've got those commitments, there are some documents to sign and submit (along with the code!) to the ASF, so that we can continue that work here legally.


Alternatively, we can start "fresh" and including/depend on things from external projects with licenses compatible with the Apache License 2.x.


I'd love to hear from anyone and everyone who's here, interested in building this project together, and/or has code to contribute. Specifically, anyone who's got a significant contribution/license to the Annotator.js code base (Randall, Nick, Aron) as well as anyone who's built Annotator.js 1.x/2.x plugins.


For my part, I'm working on the website and also going to dust-off some of the Web Annotation projects I've built (and am building) for contribution here--if they're wanted. ;) Some of them are built as Annotator.js 2.x plugins. Others are standalone server or client code projects.


This is a collective project, so your voice and input is not only wanted, but needed! :D


Thanks!

Benjamin


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