Rating Annotations

Say a book author creates a website to centralize resources related to
his/her book. He can receive input like that on Amazon where the book is
rated 1 to 5 stars possibly with a comment. Input can also include semantic
tagging and book summaries or reviews/critique. The review could be
relevant to an ISO standard or may be a critique including pros and cons.
The book author is likely to moderate all input and may rate its relevance
and/or quality possibly [dis]agreeing with some pros/cons. Semantic tagging
endorsement by authors would probably be particularly useful. Authors’
involvement could add a dimension of quality and authoritativeness to
social contributions. Ratings can produce interesting & useful statistics.
Openness removes vendor lock-in.



Is Annotation Ontology suitable for this & what adjustments would need to
be made, if any?



Starting at the Annotation node, just as there is a motivatedBy predicate,
should there be one for relevantTo? If not how should it be expressed? When
one is rating relevance sometimes the context is understood when an author
is rating an annotation about his book but in the case of rating something
against say an ISO standard it needs to be specified. Options for the RDF
object of a relevantTo predicate should probably be a topic (e.g. semantic
tag) or just a resource (which presumably has a main topic –implicitly at
least).



Would book summaries extend oa:describing; reviews/critique extend
commenting; and pros & cons extend that?



Now for the actual rating, there should probably be a binary agree/disagree
– like/dislike mechanism in addition to a percentile rating for both
relevance and quality.



Some more specifics are posted
here<http://www.w3.org/community/openannotation/wiki/index.php?title=User_talk:Wnema&oldid=872>
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