Biomedical Linked Annotation Hackathon (BLAH) 1 was held in The University of Tokyo Kashiwa Campus Station Satellite in Kashiwa, Chiba, Japan. On the last day of the Hackathon (Feb. 27), public symposium of the BLAH 1 was held. In this talk, Juan Miguel Cejuela (TU Munchen) makes a presentation entitled "Linked annotations: a middle ground for manual curation of biomedical databases and text corpora". (10:58)