RE: [model] Clarifying annotation architecture

Yes the distinction between good and bad is clear to me now:

·         in the good annotation a new resource is created and the motivation applies to that resource so that if that body is used in a different annotation another resource would be created and the two motivations would apply respectively to the two resources.

·         In the bad one, there is a single resource, which may be used as the body  for multiple annotations, and each annotation makes an assertion about that resource, so the assertions accumulate for that single resource.

But this just makes me continue to scratch my head:

If annotationA makes assertionA about bodyX, and annotationB makes assertionB about bodyX, then it seems that what you are saying is that both assertions, assertionA and assertionB  both then apply to bodyX.  What I don’t understand is why someone consuming annotationB, should care what annotationA asserted. Or, in other words, how does annotationB become polluted by annotationA.

No need to respond as I don’t really plan to pursue this line of inquiry further. I understand, it’s that Whole World Assumption (or whatever) but I’m having trouble seeing how the World is made better by that Assumption.

Thanks Rob.

Ray

From: Robert Sanderson [mailto:azaroth42@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, July 23, 2015 11:02 AM
To: Denenberg, Ray
Cc: W3C Public Annotation List
Subject: Re: [model] Clarifying annotation architecture


Sure!

Good:

_:anno a oa:Annotation ;
  oa:hasTarget <some-uri.html> ;
  oa:hasBody _:specres .

_:specres a oa:SpecificResource ;
  oa:motivatedBy oa:commenting ;
  oa:hasSource <meme-image.jpg> .


Bad:

_:anno a oa:Annotation ;
  oa:hasTarget <some-uri.html> ;
  oa:hasBody <meme-image.jpg> .

<meme-image.jpg> oa:motivatedBy oa:commenting .


(Or substitute some new predicate like oa:role or whatever, per Tim Cole's comment that specific resources aren't really motivated in the same way that annotations are)

Hope that helps :)

Rob


On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 7:58 AM, Denenberg, Ray <rden@loc.gov<mailto:rden@loc.gov>> wrote:
Rob – still trying to grasp this.  Could you show how this would look done the “right” way, I.e. as a specific resource,

AND   please write both (the bad example and the good)  in turtle, not json-ld.

Thanks.

Ray


From: Robert Sanderson [mailto:azaroth42@gmail.com<mailto:azaroth42@gmail.com>]
Sent: Thursday, July 23, 2015 10:30 AM
To: Denenberg, Ray
Cc: Jacob Jett; Frederick Hirsch; W3C Public Annotation List

Subject: Re: [model] Clarifying annotation architecture


We shouldn't (must not) do this:

{
  "@type": "Annotation",
  "target" : "some-uri.html",
  "body": {
    "@id": "meme-image.jpg",
    "role": "commenting"
  }
}

As meme-image.jpg might have another role in a different annotation (replacing, in Doug's example)

Rob


On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 6:37 AM, Denenberg, Ray <rden@loc.gov<mailto:rden@loc.gov>> wrote:
Hi Jacob – No, I’m afraid I don’t see that the “sky colored red” example applies to my question, however, if you (or someone) could write, in RDF syntax, an example annotation, which does specifically what it is we are saying we shouldn’t do …  specifically: attach a motivation to a body  (and more specifically, where the body is an image or some other non-rdf resource) ... that would help.
Thanks.

Ray

From: jgjett@gmail.com<mailto:jgjett@gmail.com> [mailto:jgjett@gmail.com<mailto:jgjett@gmail.com>] On Behalf Of Jacob Jett
Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2015 5:16 PM
To: Denenberg, Ray
Cc: Robert Sanderson; Frederick Hirsch; W3C Public Annotation List

Subject: Re: [model] Clarifying annotation architecture

Hi Ray,

This is a distinctly RDF thing. Essentially the triples are all distinct assertions.

Imagine that I told you, "the sky is red". In ttl we might write the assertion this way --
     Sky colored Red .

This statement is true at certain points in time. Unfortunately RDF does not have a way to scope the assertion to certain points in time (or in the roles example, specific contexts). So from the SemWeb perspective "Sky colored Red ." and "Sky colored Blue ." are both true at all times and in all places. Using the specific resource allows us to scope the assertions, e.g., Sky@time@place colored Red .

Is that example helpful at all?

I think Rob's suggestion is a reasonable work around for this role issue. It should be invisible to those who don't care about SemWeb issues and makes the data reasonably actionable for those who do.

Regards,

Jacob


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On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 4:00 PM, Denenberg, Ray <rden@loc.gov<mailto:rden@loc.gov>> wrote:
There is a fundamental piece of this that I’m missing.
{
  "@type": "Annotation",
  "target": "some-uri.html",
  "body": {
    "@type": "SpecificResource",
    "motivation" : "editing",
    "source": "meme-image.jpg"
  }

You create a new resource (specific resource) in order to associate a motivation (editing) with the original resource (source).

And you do this to avoid  “directly assigning a role to the original resource”.

I understand the reason why.  What I don’t understand is how it is proposed to do the latter in the first place.  In the example, the original resource is an image. Not like it’s an RDF description that you can stick an RDF  triple into.

What am I missing here?

Ray


From: Robert Sanderson [mailto:azaroth42@gmail.com<mailto:azaroth42@gmail.com>]
Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2015 2:45 PM
To: Frederick Hirsch
Cc: W3C Public Annotation List
Subject: Re: [model] Clarifying annotation architecture




> * Associate the role with the body directly.  Fails because it makes the body un-reusable, which for the image/video or similar case is not acceptable.


This statement is a key issue and I think Doug was asking about this as well during the call.
The failure scenario is not clear. Un-resuable  : re-used by whom and for what?

Reused anywhere by anyone for anything, but most importantly reused as a body in a different annotation with a different role.
As per Doug's example, you could not use the meme image as a comment in one annotation and a replacement in another annotation.


If I forget the semantic web (for a moment) I can have an object, say a body, that has properties, including hasSegment or role and two bodies could have different values for the properties.

Sure. If I forget that I need to close my tags and put quotes around my single token attributes, I end up with SGML ... but that sure isn't XML.  Or if we conveniently forget about HTTP requirements, we could not worry about all those pesky headers. We could just stuff everything in the URL ... that would be much simpler, no? Then you would only ever need to do a GET, and could type it into your browser bar.


The only re-use issue would be an implementation optimization (e.g. I don't want to duplicate an embedded image/video to save space)

In semantic web terms:
annotation1 has body1.
annotation1 has body2.
body1 hasRole A.
body2 hasRole B.

annotation2 has body1
body1 hasRole B.

Now body1 has both A and B roles.


so where is the problem, and where is the re-use?

There was no problem until someone else (annotation2) also assigned a different role to the body, and now it has both of them at once.


> * Associate the role (motivation) with a specific resource. Works as expected without changing the semantics, breaking linked data, or introducing any new classes or properties.

isn't a body a resource? If it isn't a resource, what is it?

Well... the preferred answer would be yes, it's a resource.  But it's also a literal string :P
However snark aside, I'm not sure as to what's prompting the question?

Perhaps to clarify the bullet:  ... with a oa:SpecificResource.

{
  "@type": "Annotation",
  "target": "some-uri.html",
  "body": {
    "@type": "SpecificResource",
    "motivation" : "editing",
    "source": "meme-image.jpg"
  }
}

R


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Rob Sanderson
Information Standards Advocate
Digital Library Systems and Services
Stanford, CA 94305




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Rob Sanderson
Information Standards Advocate
Digital Library Systems and Services
Stanford, CA 94305



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Rob Sanderson
Information Standards Advocate
Digital Library Systems and Services
Stanford, CA 94305