PubAnnotation
                        a public shared platform for scientific literature annotation


                                                           Jin-Dong Kim
                                                Database Center for Life Science
                                        Research Organization of Information and Systems
                                               178-4-4 Wakashiba, Kashiwa, Japan
                                                     jdkim@dbcls.rois.ac.jp


    Abstract— In the last decade, the technology for biomedical     infrastructure.” The talk will present the PubAnnotation project
literature annotation made significant progress in terms of         which aims at addressing these two issues. In the end, a new
accuracy and speed. Now, some annotation systems claim that         model for “sustainable shared tasks,” which is implemented on
they have reached a production level. However, there still remain   PubAnnotation, will be introduced as well.
critical issues which we believe hinder further progress of the
community. Among them, a relatively well known issue is                 Keywords—literature annotation;    interoperability;   storage
“interoperability” of annotation resources. We also recognize       infrastructure; PubAnnotation
that the community is missing a general solution for “storage