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In continuing the discussion on this call, Brian mentioned a recent focus by the W3C on support for annotations via the http://openannotation.org/spec/core – it seems more straightforward than reification (giving an RDF statement its own URI and adding multiple additional statements about that statement) and appears to be intended for a similar purpose (applying terminology to resources) to what Jing describes as the use case at Hopkins.
Use cases
Via email 9/2013 – a researcher for the Ministry of Finance in France is exploring using VIVO to manage semantic data on long video clips. By integrating with open annotations, users will be able to annotate the video using a SPARQL endpoint.