- From: Bob Wyman <bob@wyman.us>
- Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2023 17:43:37 -0500
- To: public-swicg@w3.org
- Message-ID: <CAA1s49W-0ngvOzg-gtUBtFpub0c2DAw4PVMk63DGZ8TQDC7u8g@mail.gmail.com>
I would like to use ActivityStreams/ActivityPub to distribute annotations, as defined in the W3C's Web Annotation Data Model <https://www.w3.org/TR/annotation-model/>. Other than convincing other clients or servers to recognize Annotations, what compatibility issues exist between the relevant specs? For instance, the ActivityPub <https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/> specification relies on the ActivityStreams Activity Vocabulary <https://www.w3.org/TR/activitystreams-vocabulary> to define a set of object types <https://www.w3.org/TR/activitystreams-vocabulary/#object-types> that does not include "Annotation." If I wish to use "Annotation" as an object-type while remaining compatible with Activity* documentation, do I need to get that Vocabulary extended? Or, is some less cumbersome approach available and appropriate? Also, are there any existing ActivityPub services that use W3C Annotations? Below, you'll find an example of what I'm trying to do. The idea here is that I want to annotate the Vocabulary's use of "xsd:dateTime" with the text: "A wise choice!." So, I use the ActivityPub Create action to publish an object of type Annotation that links the body of my annotation (the text: "A wise choice!") to the Vocabulary via its URL. The precise location and span of my annotation within the document is found by using the specified selector. { "@context": "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams", "type": "Create", "actor": "https://example.com/bob", "published": "2023-02-28T19:36:51Z", "to": ["https://example.com/alice/", "https://example.com/mary/"], "object": { "@context": "http://www.w3.org/ns/anno.jsonld", "id": "http://example.org/annotation#id=32B24", "type": "Annotation", "body": { "type": "TextualBody", "value": "<p>A wise choice!</p>", "format": "text/html", "language": "en" }, "target": { "source": "https://www.w3.org/TR/activitystreams-vocabulary/", "selector": { "type": "TextQuoteSelector", "exact": "xsd:dateTime", "prefix": " properties defined as", "suffix": " values must conform" } } } } bob wyman
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