Re: [public-annotea-dev] <none>

We had once discussed this, but sadly it seems it has been forgotten.
For the record, the proposal was to drop this MyHomeTopic and add a
property to the bookmark schema that identifies the Root of a
Collection. 

You can also add a Root Topic or something equivalent if you're still
thinking about having bookmarks without any collection.

-jose

On Thu, Oct 14, 2004 at 07:32:42AM -0400, Ralph R. Swick wrote:
> 
> At 10:47 PM 10/13/2004 -0500, marja@annotea.org wrote:
> >I think it makes 
> >sense to use global http:// HomeTopic because I think it helps merging several 
> >bookmark files from the user's point of view.
> 
> yes, it would be nice if users chose a home topic whose name
> could be resolved in the Web.  This gives them an easy place to
> publish other facts about their home topic for easy discovery by
> others.  (They can still publish facts about a non-http: home topic
> in the Web but obviously they have to find somewhere other than
> at the home topic URI to publish those facts.)
> 
> >Is there any reason why I should not use 
> >http://http://www.w3.org/2002/01/bookmark#MyHomeTopic ? 
> 
> If everyone uses the same home topic then dropping the 'My'
> from the Topic name would lead to less confusion about whether
> this was really personalized.  Remember -- if you load Jose's
> bookmark list together with your own, it will appear as if all
> of Jose's topics are also SubTopics of your own HomeTopic.
> 
> I don't think everyone should be using the same home Topic name.

Received on Thursday, 14 October 2004 14:23:03 UTC