- From: Dan Whaley via GitHub <sysbot+gh@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2016 16:42:57 +0000
- To: public-annotation@w3.org
Another way to think about this distinction: "Publishing" is the act of making something "Public" to some group, i.e. "Known" to that group. So, preferences that page owners might signal to annotation services probably should revolve probably primarily around the notion of publishing-- just as @BigBlueHat has indicated. In other words, it doesn't make sense for a page owner to say "You can't make a personal annotation here", because no one else will know about that annotation, we can't and shouldn't try to limit people's freedom to record and think for personal purposes (special note of curiosity: some fora, such as special viewing rooms inside congress for highly sensitive documents do restrict the ability to bring writing implements in) if for no other reason than that there are plenty of ways to do that. When you annotate personally, you are indeed annotating and not publishing. A curious middle ground is around groups. I asked one of our interviewees recently about whether page owners should have a voice in whether their content was annotated within private group, since clearly that should be ok, right? She pointed me to the example of "Slam Books", which are (or were) apparently a thing in grade school, and potentially wider places. I don't have a personal conclusion here, only just to note that this was an interesting consideration that I hadn't thought of before. -- GitHub Notification of comment by dwhly Please view or discuss this issue at https://github.com/w3c/web-annotation/issues/204#issuecomment-210540885 using your GitHub account
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