Re: Pieces and parts

Thanks Benjamin!

On Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 7:14 AM, Benjamin Young <bigbluehat@hypothes.is>
wrote:

> 0. a data format
>    - check! ;)
>

Or even: A data model (check) and one or more serializations of it (check)


> 1. a feed format
>    - for more than one annotation
>    - we MAY have this in the form of the container docs from the protocol
>

Or as:OrderedCollection. Ivan also suggested ore:Aggregation (which I'm
happy to discuss, as being somewhat responsible/to blame for it)
Regardless, yes.  A question is to whether it should live in the model or
the protocol or both.



> 2. a discovery mechanism
>    - "I'm at this URL, are there annotations (on this server, other
> servers, etc)?"
>

Yep. Attempted in the protocol at the moment, further suggestions for how
to do it very welcome.  Not sure whether you bundle search under this
heading or not?



> 3. a notification system
>   - "I made an annotation on this URL, how do I let it (it's author,
> publisher, CMS, etc) know that I did that."
>

Yep. AS as the model seems appropriate, but we still need a transport
mechanism, and potentially a subscription system.


> 4. a publishing system--which is mostly (afaik) what's being defined in
> the protocol spec
>   - "I have annotations, and I want to write them into an annotation
> system"
>

Yup, as you note, what we have as the focus of protocol now.


If that list (or one like it) makes sense to everyone, I think it would be
> prudent for us to begin collecting information (on the wiki, presumably)
> around each of those things and begin spec-ing or explaining how they might
> (should or could) be used for annotation.
> My sense is that we've got #0 and #4 in some state of completion or
> progression, but they're floating heads without the rest of these
> components and stories. I.e. we've got enough spec'ed to make loverly
> matching silos, but not enough spec'ed to make them work together across
> the Web.
>

Agreed :)

R

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Rob Sanderson
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Digital Library Systems and Services
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