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• Who are the actual users of annotation technologies, collaborative authoring tools and open data streams powering both?
• How are those users currently doing their jobs and accessing these data streams? What are the “pain points”?
• What needs to be built or tweaked to alleviate those “pain points,” while simultaneously opening up the government process in question to outside collaboration?
• Why haven’t proven annotation tools or open data production processes been adopted?
• What are the most interesting projects inside and outside of government that offer points of integration for annotation approaches / technologies?
• Which areas of government are most likely to be open to experimenting with annotation, or whose data is already available.
• Which internal facing and external facing parts of the government workflow could benefit from annotation?
• In what cases are user confidentiality or editorial management of annotation necessary?
• Which initiatives or groups within government are creating momentum towards embracing these new technologies?
• Which types of materials (or processes) will require private or managed annotations, and which are fully open?
• Are there document corpora (e.g. U.S. civil code) that would support analytics derived from annotations?
• What ontologies/thesauri and other organized semantic data are available for reference in annotations? Are there any lacking that would be useful?
• Are there external technical services that government employees use regularly, or is integration with outside services more difficult?
• In an environment like House or Senate committees, what kind of group or privacy support is necessary to firewall off annotations? Inter-branch communications?
• What are the high quality non-governmental groups that provide commentary or perspective on draft [legislation, regulations, etc] now that would be natural early participants?
• Is there an opportunity with “supra” agencies or offices, such as the GAO, CBO, or other higher up the d