Re: Proposed W3C Charter: Annotation Working Group (until 2014-08-19)

On August 13, 2014 at 2:48:54 PM, Luc Moreau (l.moreau@ecs.soton.ac.uk) wrote:
> Dear all,
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> This is an interesting charter tackling an important need. I am
> supportive of it. I have a couple of comments/suggestions.
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> Given that the charter makes explicit reference to provenance, I think
> it should also refer to the Provenance Working Group and/or PROV in
> section 3. Furthermore, the Open Annotation Data Model was building on
> W3C PROV. Thus, it is important that provenance-related aspects
> specified by the Annotation Working Group remain compatible with PROV.
> This should be part of the charter.

Just out of interest, who is using PROV? Do any browsers support it? (I don't know what it is, which is why I ask) 

> It would be useful to clarify which media types beyond HTML5, if any,
> the proposed working intends to focus on for Robust Link Anchoring.
> In the Provenance Working Group, for a short period, there were
> discussions about annotations of provenance. I am not expecting
> anchoring on provenance to be in scope of this future Working Group,
> but it would be nice if its anchoring model could be general enough,
> to be instantiable (which implies shareable, archivable, etc) for
> provenance.
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> Regards,
> Luc
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