Re: annotation protocol

And just related - let's not forget history:

http://www.w3.org/2001/Annotea/
http://annotea.org/

.. and Section "Evolution of Web Annotation" in
http://arxiv.org/pdf/1310.6555.pdf (paywall version:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/MIC.2013.123 )




On 18 November 2014 17:26, Denenberg, Ray <rden@loc.gov> wrote:
> I am not clear on what we mean when we talk about protocol with respect to
> annotations.
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> In my view of the world of annotations, ProviderX has a database of
> resources, for example, journal articles. UserA reads an article and creates
> an annotation.  That annotation is a resource created on some annotation
> database that userA has access to create an annotation on (obviously, not on
> ProviderX’s database).    UserB (unrelated to UserA) comes across that
> article and want to see annotations of the article.
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> How does UserB discover UserA’s annotation (or for that matter any
> annotation of that article)? UserB doesn’t even know of the existence of
> UserA and his/her annotation database.
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> Is this what we mean (or part of what we mean) by annotation protocol?
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> Pardon the naïve question but I don’t see this addressed in the model.   It
> is something I’ve wondered about for quite a while and don’t have an answer.
> But I speculate that part of the process is that when UserA creates the
> annotation,  ProviderX is somehow notified of its creation and can choose to
> point to that annotation, and then UserB can find it.
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> Is this issue addressed anywhere in any greater detail than this vague
> description?  Or is this to be part of the “protocol” to be developed.
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> Apologies if this has all been addressed and solved,  and I just can’t find
> it.
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> Ray
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