Document Services Community Group: GitHub Repository

Document Services Community Group,

Hello. I recently updated the group’s GitHub repository’s README.md file with the following content. Please feel free to respond in this e-mail thread with any ideas to improve the document, e.g., introduction section content, definitions, examples of document services, protocol brainstorming, user interface brainstorming, or ideas for new sections of the document.


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Adam

https://github.com/w3c/document-services

Introduction

The Document Services Community Group<https://www.w3.org/community/services/> intends to, in coordination with other groups, create a general-purpose architecture, API's, and protocols for both free and paid-subscription-based document services to convenience document service providers and to equip and empower end-users who will be able to make use of multiple document services simultaneously to better author and review documents.

Document Services

Document services are client-local, on-prem, or remote services upon documents, portions of documents, or selections of document content.

Examples of Document Services

  1.  spellchecking
  2.  grammar checking
  3.  fact checking
  4.  analysis of subjectivity and objectivity
  5.  mathematical proof checking
  6.  reasoning checking
  7.  argumentation checking
  8.  narrative checking

Protocol Brainstorming

  1.  A word-processing application could transmit a selection of content, a selection accompanied by contextual content, or an entire document to a service provider and receive response data. This might occur whenever an end-user selected to perform an operation using an application menu or context menu.
  2.  A word-processing application could send content to a service provider as edits occur in real-time and receive response data. This scenario involves a single end-user authoring a document.
  3.  A service provider could participate as a virtual co-author with a team of human authors, receiving document edits in real-time and sending response data. Examples of word-processing applications which support real-time co-authoring scenarios include Microsoft Word<https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/collaborate-on-word-documents-with-real-time-co-authoring-7dd3040c-3f30-4fdd-bab0-8586492a1f1d> and Google Docs<https://www.google.com/docs/about/>.

User Interface Brainstorming

As envisioned, document service providers could provide different types of response data and these data could be integrated into word-processing applications' user interfaces in a number of ways.

  1.  Highlighting or underlining document content and providing more information or options with a context menu.
  2.  Displaying information in a status bar, e.g., word count.
  3.  Displaying information in a popup window or widget.
  4.  Displaying information in a document margin, e.g., data about one or more paragraphs.
  5.  Displaying information in a side-panel widget.
  6.  Displaying information in a floating, dockable widget.
  7.  Displaying information in the form of a document comment which can annotate a selection of document content.
  8.  Displaying information in a generated report about the document which the end-user can navigate to from or within the word-processing application. Such reports could contain hyperlinks which, if clicked upon, highlight and scroll to selections of document content.
  9.  Providing response data in the form of dialogue-system content, perhaps utilizing a communication channel which supports hyperlinks which, if clicked upon, highlight and scroll to selections of document content.