Re: Streamlining the OA Model

Dear Sebastian,
I produce annotation on webpages that I cannot control and I work with the
DOM. I mainly annotate scientific content with
http://annotationframework.org

One example of why the counting and XPointer might not work is the fact
that pages includes  sections like advertisements and news which change
often.  There are even more simple examples, like having the document
displaying somewhere today's date. These modifications can fail selection
and counting and that is why, three years ago I started using different
mechanisms that are less affected - not immune unfortunately - to the
common changes in pages. About at the same time, the need emerged in the
OAC community as well.

In general, Selectors also makes sense considering the need for annotating
media types other than HTML. For instance, Media Fragments fall short in
many of the already implemented use cases of video annotation tools.

Hope this helps,
Paolo


On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 2:43 AM, Sebastian Hellmann <
hellmann@informatik.uni-leipzig.de> wrote:

> Dear Paolo,
> Why wouldn't this work well?  It is based on RFC5147. Offset works for any
> string and therefore also HTML source. Problems arise, when you interpret
> strings. They do not work well for DOM, of course, but this is where one
> would rather use xPointer (W3C) . I guess, it also wouldn't work well to
> use an OA text selector on an image, right?
> With fragments, you definitely gain:
> - compatibility with the web (which also means free implementations)
> - less triples
> - less generated UUID's (if any at all)
>
> What do you gain, when using selectors?  I am not interested in
> theoretical/modelling issues. For me only things count that help you
> succeed in a use case.
> Building a parser for URIs is something very easy to implement, much
> easier in fact than understanding and working with selectors.
> Sebastian
>
>
> Am 31.07.2012 19:51, schrieb Paolo Ciccarese:
>
>  Is the mechanism
>> http://www.w3.org/**DesignIssues/LinkedData.html#**offset_717_729<http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/LinkedData.html#offset_717_729>really
>> working in general?
>>
>> In my experience it does not with HTML pages in general. That would mean
>> having lots of ways of composing the URIs that then need would need to be
>> parsed. That is why we designed more complex selection mechanisms (
>> http://www.openannotation.org/**spec/core/#Selector).<http://www.openannotation.org/spec/core/#Selector%29.>..
>> and therefore more
>> triples.
>>
>> Paolo
>>
>
>
>
>
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