Re: Idea: Annotation Feed Format

> On 24 Feb 2015, at 15:24 , Benjamin Young <bigbluehat@hypothes.is> wrote:
> 
> The current LDP-based protocol propose is a full read/write API for dealing with Open Annotation documents.
> 
> I've begun to wonder if we might not also be served by having a more minimal "feed format" similar to (or based on) RSS, Atom, or ActivityStreams (etc).
> 
> The end result should be a lightweight wrapper around Open Annotation Data Model documents that return them as a collection. This could be done today with Atom via <atom:link /> references and auto-generated title, updated, etc. tags. Lorestore apparently provides these:
> http://austese.net/lorestore/docs.html#atom
> 
> Is there interest in having a separate document that defines one or more options for expressing an annotation "feed" in any of these existing formats? or (if we must) defining a new one?

I would certainly be interested to see that. I am all for simplicity, so if we find an approach that is (even) simpler than LDP, that could just be good. Or to prove ourselves that the complexity level of LDP is the right one.

Ivan

> 
> Thanks for the consideration,
> Benjamin
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