- From: Benjamin Young <byoung@bigbluehat.com>
- Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2018 21:16:17 +0000
- To: Graham Klyne <gklyne@googlemail.com>, "sgharms@stevengharms.com" <sgharms@stevengharms.com>
- CC: "public-openannotation@w3.org" <public-openannotation@w3.org>
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Glad to hear this is being explored! And thank you both for adding your thoughts here. Steven, special thanks to you for kicking this off (and great post, btw!). :) One option for books is to use URN's for the targets: https://www.iana.org/assignments/urn-namespaces/urn-namespaces.xhtml Of the ones registered there you'll find `isbn` and `issn` among several others. The next steps (for physical things) is how you refine that target--into what Web Annotation Data Model calls a SpecificResource: https://www.w3.org/TR/annotation-vocab/#specificresource Essentially, those are a target.source (the URN above), and some sort of "selector" (or locator). That's where the invention and exploration probably need the most work. :) Usually, for print, that's some combination of page number, line number, and/or exact quote (or text range, etc). I'd be very curious to see this explored more, and hope that I and others here can help in that in some way. :) Thanks for sharing your hopes here! Benjamin -- http://bigbluehat.com/ http://linkedin.com/in/benjaminyoung ________________________________ From: Graham Klyne <gklyne@googlemail.com> Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2018 5:04 PM To: sgharms@stevengharms.com Cc: public-openannotation@w3.org Subject: Re: Web annotations for physical texts I'm currently doing some linked data work using Web Annotations applied to physical places, and I'm not seeing any real problems with this (just a need to be clear what a URI is referring to). I'm actually finding them to be quite a powerful tool for capturing contextualised descriptions in linked data (with a modest additions). #g. On Wed, 10 Oct 2018, 21:46 Steven Harms, <sgharms@stevengharms.com<mailto:sgharms@stevengharms.com>> wrote: Greetings, I am interested in creating annotations on physical books [1<https://stevengharms.com/research/semweb-topic/problem_statement/>]. As the name "web annotations" suggests, the default target of the Web Annotation Working Group would be, of course, to annotation IRI-referable targets with IRI-identifiable Annotations. 1. Is there a model whereby we could point to a physical resource in a URI / IRI format (and thus join the existing Web Annotation universe, *or* 2. Is there a framework that might support referring to physical books that I've simply not found 3. Or should I plan to use JSON-LD to create "forge my own path?" I hope to post an example of what #3 might look like, but I'd like to double check my understanding before engaging in in such an effort, tabula rasa. Regards, Steven [1]: https://stevengharms.com/research/semweb-topic/problem_statement/ -- Steven G. Harms PGP: E6052DAF<https://pgp.mit.edu/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x337AF45BE6052DAF>
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