Re: [web-annotation] Annotation Lists

@elf-pavlik I don't see ordering, collections, or even paging as an 
API specific feature--and dearly want Collection style stuff spec'd 
somewhere or other.

In my current desired use case, I'm wanting to add "static" 
annotations to a filesystem (think Jekyll sites on GitHub Pages, for 
example), and would like to include paged collections of them in "blog
 order" (newest first) as I would with RSS and Atom Feeds. If the 
single collection file grows unwieldy, I would (reasonably) want to 
paginate them and/or break them into related collections (by month, 
week, etc).

Expressing all of that should be possible, is not specific to API 
usage, and would sure be handy to have defined somewhere. :smile: 

Right now, it seems that ActivityStreams 2.0 
[OrderedCollection](http://www.w3.org/TR/activitystreams-vocabulary/#dfn-orderedcollection)
 and 
[OrderedCollectionPage](http://www.w3.org/TR/activitystreams-vocabulary/#dfn-orderedcollectionpage)
 do come the closest to the above use case requirements.

Given @tilgovi's scalability points (and the likelihood of one or more
 annotations appearing in one or more pages when using `offset` or 
similar), we should plan to accommodate that overlap and the 
possibility that ordering MAY be ignored if the client is not 
interested--or plans to resort on some other priority (page position 
order vs. date order).

A fun problem to be sure. :smiley: 

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GitHub Notif of comment by BigBlueHat
See 
https://github.com/w3c/web-annotation/issues/50#issuecomment-153057263

Received on Monday, 2 November 2015 15:42:50 UTC