Re: multiple bodies and motivations

So is there any need for us to spec any of this or should we just leave it
to the communities to start experimenting with roles on their bodies?

On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 12:25 PM Denenberg, Ray <rden@loc.gov> wrote:

> Yes, it is recognized (and was mentioned this morning) that the annotation
> itself has  a primary motivation, which is to be expressed as a property of
> the annotation.   * But *I don’t agree with the suggestion if there are
> multiple bodies with different motivations then these should be expressed
> as multiple annotations.  I think perhaps these may be “roles” rather than
> motivations, i.e., what role is a body playing in the annotation.  There
> have been a number of use cases calling for multiple bodies, where
> different bodies play different roles, and where creating separate
> annotations for each body would not be work.  The intermediate resource
> solves the problem, but as you note, it complicates the model.
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> And of course (to address Jacob’s point) this would be left to individual
> communities to develop in the form of extensions.  There is no suggestion
> intended that we try to develop the entire taxonomy among ourselves.
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> Ray
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> *From:* Randall Leeds [mailto:randall@bleeds.info]
> *Sent:* Wednesday, March 18, 2015 2:41 PM
> *To:* Jacob Jett; Denenberg, Ray
> *Cc:* Web Annotation
> *Subject:* Re: multiple bodies and motivations
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> More or less +1 to Jacob.
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> Other concerns are the open world problem of assigning motivations to the
> body, which may be a resource owned by a different authority than the
> annotation and a semantic issue that the motivation is really a motivation
> for involving the body in the annotation activity rather than a motivation
> for the existence of the body resource itself.
>
> It seems like the most conceptually sound way to handle it would be to
> have an intermediate resource. That definitely complicates the model.
>
> I think it was suggested in GitHub that perhaps even if the bodies have
> different purposes the annotation itself has a primary, over-arching
> motivation and if it seems like there are multiple perhaps multiple
> annotations is more appropriate.
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> On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 11:12 AM Jacob Jett <jjett2@illinois.edu> wrote:
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> Hi Ray,
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> My question would be, are we conflating motivation with structural
> implications? That a thing is a tag seems to me to say more about its
> intrinsic nature, i.e., a tag is a sort snippet of text, a semantic tag is
> a named entity, rather than the role it plays in the annotation. That being
> said I do think that there is likely room in the model for a motivation (or
> more properly a role) property on the body.
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> We may want to be cautious here because there will likely be cases where
> the role a body plays in an annotation is sensitive to the environment the
> annotation finds itself in. In some environments some text might be
> explaining the target and in others it might be describing it. Since the
> model is extensible it might be best to leave it to individual communities
> to develop value added extensions particular to their annotation
> repositories rather than try to develop an over-arching taxonomy of body
> types that will likely be incomplete.
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> Regards,
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> Jacob
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> Jacob Jett
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> On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 12:55 PM, Denenberg, Ray <rden@loc.gov> wrote:
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> We ran out of time while I was on-Q so I’ll carry my thoughts to email.
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> The issue is multiple bodies with multiple motivations. In the model
> currently,   a  motivation, applies to the entire annotation. How do you
>  associate a motivation with a  body.
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> It seems to me that a straightforward approach is for each body to have a
> class  (with implied motivation).   Someone mentioned, if it’s a tag, you
> know it’s a tag. If it’s a sematic tag, you know it’s a semantic tag.  How
> do you know? Because the body is classed as oa:Tag or oa:SemanticTag.   So
> it works for those two, why wouldn’t that work in general?
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> Ray
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