Re: [PROPOSAL] DomRangeSelector

hi Randall,

I did a brief presentation about Open Annotation at a recent EUDAT
meeting (http://www.eudat.eu/2nd-eudat-user-forum) and got a question
from the audience along the same lines of what you describe. If I
remember correctly the person asking the question was involved in TEI
work.

Greetings

Herbert

On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 7:15 PM, Randall Leeds <randall.leeds@gmail.com> wrote:
> In Annotator [0], the historical format for a selected range of a
> document is a serialization of the properties of a DOM Range [1]
> object (modulo a renaming of startContainer -> start, endContainer ->
> end).
>
> In porting Annotator to use the OA spec, I've found it useful to still
> store this selector, even as we store now an oa:TextQuoteSelector and
> oa:TextPositionSelector. The reason is that it is cheapest to locate a
> range by using XPath (when the XPath still properly identifies the
> same text), since it can be done by direct traversal.
>
> It strikes me as a sensible addition to our spec to have a
> DomRangeSelector. Since this is a standard that has been implemented
> in browsers for quite some time it is familiar to developers and well
> established.
>
> I would propose something like the following:
>
> oa:DomRangeSelector   Class        A resource which describes the
> segment of interest as specified by the DOM Level 2 Traversal Range
> specification.
> oa:startContainer           Property   A string identifying the
> element at the start of the range.
> oa:startOffset               Property    A string identifying the
> character offset within the start container.
> oa:endContainer
> oa:endOffset
>
> The only part I'm not sure how to specify well is the spelling of the
> container values. We use XPath, but this could be xpointer or some
> other thing. Probably to keep things simple, an XPath is adequate.
>
> For an example of an annotation with this format, see this URL for a
> (JSON) representation, see [2].
>
> I submit this proposal for discussion and comments from the group,
> either for inclusion in Core or Extension.
>
> -R
>
> [0] http://okfn.org/labs/annotator
> [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-2-Traversal-Range/ranges.html
> [2] https://dev.hypothes.is/api/v1/annotations/ODwQlmoYSX2JdzZF5zX_Uw
>



-- 
Herbert Van de Sompel
Digital Library Research & Prototyping
Los Alamos National Laboratory, Research Library
http://public.lanl.gov/herbertv/

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Received on Thursday, 21 March 2013 10:59:19 UTC