Re: Proposal to keep motivatedBy as a property of Annotation

+1 I also support to keep motivatedBy

On Tue, Sep 8, 2015 at 3:13 PM, Frederick Hirsch <w3c@fjhirsch.com> wrote:

> (not as chair)
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> +1 to proposal to keep motivatedBy for oa:Annotation in addition to roles,
> with support for adding clarification text to the model specification.
>
> Bookmarking without body and other examples are compelling.
>
> Thanks for the clear write-up. We need to coalesce the non-valid use cases
> into a paragraph of warning if the proposal is adopted.
>
> regards, Frederick
>
> Frederick Hirsch
>
> www.fjhirsch.com
> @fjhirsch
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> > On Sep 6, 2015, at 6:41 PM, Timothy Cole <t-cole3@illinois.edu> wrote:
> >
> > You'll recall from the results of the CFC and the discussions we had on
> the WG's 2 September call (
> http://www.w3.org/2015/09/02-annotation-minutes.html), that we decided to
> go forward with the approach for adding role to SpecificResource and
> EmbeddedContent objects as outlined in Section 3.1 of
> http://w3c.github.io/web-annotation/model/wd/roles.html#proposed-model-revision.
> However, 1 or 2 of the issues outlined in section 3.2 (Further
> Considerations) of that document remain to be resolved before model can be
> updated.
> >
> > Ivan, Ray and I took a look at one of these open issues, 3.2.5 Remove
> motivatedBy [as a property of oa:Annotation] completely.  In the end we
> created an additional page providing use cases / illustrations of why we
> think we need to retain the Annotation-level motivatedBy property:
> >
> >   http://w3c.github.io/web-annotation/model/wd/AnnoLevelMotive.html
> >
> > Please take a look at this page and offer comments, counter-point
> arguments, agreement, etc. as appropriate. Feel free to respond directly on
> this thread if that makes most sense.
> >
> > In summary, we concluded that Annotation-level motivatedBy property
> should be retained in order to support 3 relatively common, intuitive and
> compelling use cases:
> >
> > ·         Needing to express Motivation of the Annotation as a Whole (as
> distinct from expressing the role of an individual body or target)
> > ·         Needing to express Motivation in the Absence of a Body
> > ·         Needing to express Motivation for an Annotation having a
> Single, Simple Textual Body (and thereby obviate the need to transform
> Simple Textual Body into SpecificResource or EmbeddedContent)
> >
> > Key to this discussion are the questions of
> > 1.       whether these uses are important or minimal now that we can
> express the role of individual SpecificResource and EmbeddedContent
> objects, and
> > 2.       whether there is a high or low risk of developers confusing
> Annotation motivatedBy and SpecificResource hasRole and as a result create
> Annotations that are difficult to understand / process when aggregated.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Tim Cole
> > University of Illinois at UC
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Dr. Paolo Ciccarese
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