*Kick off 2018 with Next Week's NISO Webinar! Register Now.* *Annotation – Practices and Tools ina Digital Environment <http://www.niso.org/events/2018/01/annotation-practices-and-tools-digital-environment>* *Wednesday, January 10, 1:00pm – 2:30pm* Annotation tools can be of tremendous value to students and to scholars. Such support for collaboration can add tremendous value to the information that’s being accessed by those user populations. What is the current state of the art? This event will bring together input from content and platform providers as well as those who are actively seeking to use those tools, whether in the library or the classroom. *Confirmed Speakers:* *Kent Anderson*, *CEO, Redlink/Remarq*; *Heather Staines*, *Director of Partnerships, Hypothesis*; *Robert Sanderson*, *Semantic Architect, J. Paul Getty Trust * To register online for this event, using a credit card, please use this form <https://www.regonline.com/jan10-annotation>. What will these speakers address? *Kent Anderson*, CEO, Redlink Annotation is a maturing technology with many manifestations. Remarq has taken a unique and ambitious approach by baking annotations into a comprehensive engagement platform that is easy to implement and administer. This presentation will provide an overview of how Remarq has knitted annotations into its sophisticated commenting, highlighting, note-taking, and collaboration environment, with an emphasis on how Remarq supports the roles and use-cases needed to generate reader, editor, and author engagement. The presentation will also review the results of initial pilots across 60 journals, showing how this approach improves many of the key variables editors, authors, and publishers care about. Finally, the presentation will touch on how Remarq has expanded to support students, teachers, and educational goals by integrating its features into a fully portable and integrated solution. *Heather Staines*, Director of Partnerships, Hypothesis Annotate any document (HTML, PDF, EPUB) across the web with non-profit open source annotation technology. Make private, public, or private-collaboration-group annotations that will appear on content hosted across multiple platforms, including PubMed Central and aggregator sites. Hypothesis is useful across the entire research life cycle: manuscript creation, submission, peer review, post-publication updates and discussions, education, entity linking, and collaboration. Create unique persistent web addresses for any entity. Search and explore public annotations made by others. Hypothesis annotators have made more than 2.3M annotations. Publishers can embed Hypothesis for free to increase visibility of annotations on their content. Work with us to create multiple branded and moderated layers across your content with granular permissions for who can read and who can create annotations. *Robert Sanderson*, Semantic Architect, J. Paul Getty Trust Annotating, the act of creating associations between distinct pieces of information, is a pervasive activity online in many guises. Web citizens make comments about online resources using either tools built in to the hosting website, external web services, or the functionality of an annotation client. Comments about shared photos or videos, reviews of products, or even social network mentions of web resources could all be considered as annotations. In addition, there are a plethora of "sticky note" systems and stand-alone multimedia annotation systems. The Web Annotation Data Model provides an extensible, interoperable framework for expressing annotations such that they 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. This presentation will cover an overview of the standard, including its history and adoption, plus a high level walk through of the model itself. For more information, please visit the event page <http://www.niso.org/events/2018/01/annotation-practices-and-tools-digital-environment>. To register online for this event, using a credit card, please use this form <https://www.regonline.com/jan10-annotation>. *What's Your Plan for 2018?* First, review the upcoming events <http://www.niso.org/events/upcoming> currently featured on our recently re-launched web site <http://www.niso.org>! (The full listing of our 2018 roster of events may be downloaded here <http://groups.niso.org/apps/group_public/download.php/18624/2018-FINAL-Education-Events.pdf> .) Then determine which plan works best for you. NISO offer two package options <http://www.niso.org/events/2018-Webinar-Subscription-Packages> for subscription access to 14 educational webinars. To attend all six virtual conferences planned in 2018, NISO offers a *Buy 3, Get 3* package <http://www.niso.org/events/2018-VirtualConf-Subscription>. Have questions? Contact us! NISO 3600 Clipper Mill Road Suite 302 Baltimore, MD 21211-1948 Phone: +1.301.654.2512 Email: [log in to unmask] Email secured by Check Point