[web-annotation] Link from AnnotationCollection to target(s) of included Annotations?

azaroth42 has just created a new issue for 
https://github.com/w3c/web-annotation:

== Link from AnnotationCollection to target(s) of included 
Annotations? ==

This came up in the IIIF use of collections (lists) of Annotations 
[1], so I'll raise it here too for consideration.

If you have a set of AnnotationCollections, each with some reasonably 
large number of Annotations in them, it would be a practical 
improvement to not require the client download all of the lists just 
to determine which of them contain annotations that target the 
resource(s) of interest.  Instead the annotation collection could 
optionally link through to the target of the annotations.

Essentially this is the propertyChain of from AnnotationCollection 
through AnnotationCollectionPage to the individual Annotations in 
items, to each hasTarget, and then potentially also down to hasSource 
if the target is a specific resource.

I understand the value of this in terms of the interaction patterns 
and optimization, but equally could be premature optimization. Any 
thoughts as to the value would be appreciated :)

[1] AnnotationList and forCanvas: 
https://github.com/IIIF/iiif.io/issues/754

Please view or discuss this issue at 
https://github.com/w3c/web-annotation/issues/184 using your GitHub 
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Received on Wednesday, 9 March 2016 23:40:53 UTC