Re: [web-annotation] Link from AnnotationCollection to target(s) of included Annotations?

> On 10 Mar 2016, at 00:40, Rob Sanderson <notifications@github.com> 
wrote:
> 
> This came up in the IIIF use of collections (lists) of Annotations 
[1], so I'll raise it here too for consideration.
> 
> If you have a set of AnnotationCollections, each with some 
reasonably large number of Annotations in them, it would be a 
practical improvement to not require the client download all of the 
lists just to determine which of them contain annotations that target 
the resource(s) of interest. Instead the annotation collection could 
optionally link through to the target of the annotations.
> 
> Essentially this is the propertyChain of from AnnotationCollection 
through AnnotationCollectionPage to the individual Annotations in 
items, to each hasTarget, and then potentially also down to hasSource 
if the target is a specific resource.
> 
> I understand the value of this in terms of the interaction patterns 
and optimization, but equally could be premature optimization. Any 
thoughts as to the value would be appreciated :)
> 
My gut feeling is that this is indeed some sort of a premature 
optimization. Do we have implementation experience for something like 
that? I think we may want to decide to postpone this for a possible 
2nd version.

> [1] AnnotationList and forCanvas: IIIF/iiif.io#754 
<https://github.com/IIIF/iiif.io/issues/754>





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