- From: Paolo Ciccarese <paolo.ciccarese@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2014 21:03:43 -0500
- To: Bob Morris <morris.bob@gmail.com>
- Cc: Doug Schepers <schepers@w3.org>, Ivan Herman <ivan@w3.org>, public-openannotation <public-openannotation@w3.org>, W3C Public Annotation List <public-annotation@w3.org>
- Message-ID: <CAFPX2kBy12Y_WOi8s5VDjeV7Nq05wH624Erci8+a3vae+55vhQ@mail.gmail.com>
To add to what Bob said....
Besides the DataPositionSelector we don't have any that is currently in the
specs:
http://www.openannotation.org/spec/core/specific.html#DataPositionSelector
However, there are local implementations. For instance, I currently
annotate the latest 10 entries of a particular kind in the triple store -
same approach could be used with a SQL Database.
In that case the Selector can encode what is necessary to identify the
entries. So, leveraging selectors, I can say:
<sptarget1> a oa:SpecificResource ;
oa:hasSource <host::database> ;
oa:hasSelector <selector1> .
<selector1> a xx:SparqlQuerySelector ;
xx:sparqlQuery "" .
True, the above target is dynamic but there are cases in which the tagged
has static nature. Example: annotate all the records in a database created
before 2000 and containing the symbol CompoundX with the note "The compound
name is now called CompoundY".
I do agree that these use cases might not be as widespread as the
annotation of classic web resources. And I am not sure on how much should
be said in the charter. In general, I would just make sure the evolution of
the model would not preclude mechanisms like the above. I feel it is very
unlikely unless the current model is completely revolutionized...
Again, robust anchoring is somehow orthogonal to this.
Best,
Paolo
On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 8:45 PM, Bob Morris <morris.bob@gmail.com> wrote:
> We have some detailed examples in the supplementary material of our
> PLOSone paper [1]. As Paolo says, OA Selector methods generally work
> for queries. You just need domain vocabulary for the query variables.
> With just a little dance the pattern can even be given meaning
> signalling annotations that make an assertion intended to hold for an
> arbitrary database that can make sense of the query.
> --Bob
>
> [1] Semantic Annotation of Mutable Data
> http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0076093
>
> On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 7:56 PM, Doug Schepers <schepers@w3.org> wrote:
> > Hi, Paolo-
> >
> > Not to drill too deep into details, but what would such a selector look
> > like?
> >
> > Regards-
> > -Doug
> >
> >
> > On 2/4/14 7:38 PM, Paolo Ciccarese wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi Doug, Bob, all,
> >> in the current Open Annotation model - and that was true for Open
> >> Annotation Collaboration and Annotation Ontology models - the data
> >> annotation is supported and an important aspect of the overall idea. For
> >> instance we can have a selector that is able to identify a portion of a
> >> dataset through an appropriate mechanisms (even a SQL query if
> necessary).
> >>
> >> Doug, data selectors don't change the need for robust anchoring within
> >> the web documents realm, it is simply a different aspect. The concern is
> >> to have a new model that will somehow preclude/limit that. That would be
> >> a problem for instance for the scientific community where data curation
> >> can be addressed with annotation.
> >>
> >>
> >> Best,
> >> Paolo
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 4:28 PM, Doug Schepers <schepers@w3.org
> >> <mailto:schepers@w3.org>> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi, Bob-
> >>
> >> The Force11 Data Citation Principles are interesting, and I
> >> certainly support them; they seem very much in line with TimBL's
> >> thinking about Linked Open Data and "five-star data".
> >>
> >> While I agree with Ivan that we need to keep a focused scope, I'm
> >> curious what specifically you would like to see in the charter?
> >>
> >> Much of the Force11 Data Citation Principles seem to be about
> >> publishing guidelines or citation guidelines, not annotations per
> >> se. Are you suggesting that the robust anchoring try to address data
> >> citation as well as document anchoring? Or is there some other way
> >> in which "data" could be more explicitly in scope?
> >>
> >> Regards-
> >> -Doug
> >>
> >>
> >> On 2/4/14 11:53 AM, Ivan Herman wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> On 04 Feb 2014, at 16:28 , Bob Morris <morris.bob@gmail.com
> >> <mailto:morris.bob@gmail.com>> wrote:
> >>
> >> This is good news and I add my thanks.
> >>
> >> It will be no surprise to OA followers that only problem I
> >> have
> >> with the early draft is that it does not unambiguously put
> >> data
> >> annotation in the scope. This is all the more disappointing
> >> given
> >> the quite interesting efforts that Tim and Ivan have pointed
> >> out
> >> in public-openannotation@w3.org
> >> <mailto:public-openannotation@w3.org> about data citation
> >> practices,
> >> e.g. http://force11.org/__datacitation
> >> <http://force11.org/datacitation>, in the context of
> >> increasing
> >>
> >> pressure from funding agencies to provide the data behind
> the
> >> conclusions of scientific publications.
> >>
> >>
> >> Bob,
> >>
> >> obviously:-) I am aware of the data publishing issues. And I
> >> think it
> >> is correct to say that part of the work that is planned in the
> >> group
> >> (namely the finalization of the data model) would certainly be
> >> usable
> >> for data annotation as well.
> >>
> >> However... the work on API-s, RESTful or not, would, I believe,
> be
> >> very different when we talk about annotation on data and about
> >> annotation on web pages or digital books. And the sad reality is
> >> that
> >> we have to make a choice in the scope because we cannot cover
> >> everything in one place. Hence the current focus on the
> >> 'traditional'
> >> Web issues.
> >>
> >> That being said: we are certainly open to either enlarge the
> scope
> >> or, possibly at a later point, spawn a different group with a
> >> different scope that would look at the annotation of data
> >> publishing.
> >> It is a matter of 'submissions' in the general sense, a maturity
> >> of
> >> the technology in terms of a possible standardization,
> communities
> >> that are ready to step up... Let us see where the public
> >> discussion
> >> goes!
> >>
> >> Thanks!
> >>
> >> Ivan
> >>
> >>
> >> On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 8:28 AM, Paolo Ciccarese
> >> <paolo.ciccarese@gmail.com
> >> <mailto:paolo.ciccarese@gmail.com>> wrote:
> >>
> >> Dear Community Group Members, As anticipated W3C may
> start
> >> a
> >> Working Group to standardize the major building blocks
> for
> >> annotations.
> >>
> >> Thanks to the work of Ivan Herman and Doug Schepers, an
> >> 'advance
> >> notice' has been issued to the W3C members[1] and a very
> >> early
> >> draft for the Working Group Charter [2] has been made
> >> available
> >> publicly.
> >>
> >> Any comments are welcome to finalize the draft. The best
> >> is to
> >> send them to the public-annotation@w3.org
> >> <mailto:public-annotation@w3.org> mailing list whose
> role
> >>
> >> is to collect all the comments coming from the community
> >> at
> >> large.
> >>
> >> Best, Paolo & Rob
> >>
> >> [1]
> >>
> >>
> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/__Public/public-annotation/__2014Feb/0000.html
> >>
> >> <
> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-annotation/2014Feb/0000.html>
> >>
> >>
> >> [2] http://www.w3.org/2014/01/Ann-__charter.html
> >> <http://www.w3.org/2014/01/Ann-charter.html>
> >>
> >>
> >> -- Dr. Paolo Ciccarese http://www.paolociccarese.
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> >>
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> >> Informatics Research & Development Instructor of
> >> Neurology at
> >> Harvard Medical School Assistant in Neuroscience at Mass
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> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
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> >>
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