Re: Requesting Annotea annotations and bodies from a single query

Annotea protocol was written to support the user browsing through the 
annotations and rather having some information sooner than all the 
information too late. The Algae queries supported wider range of 
queries. I think now we could start using SPARQL for that.

If many people need this we can also discuss about updates to the 
protocol. I remember that IBM SemTag project had an extension to get 
more information at one request.

Marja

The Robin Berjon wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I don't know if this has come up before, I couldn't find mention of it 
> in the archives but I'm not entirely certain that I'm covering the 
> right lists in my search.
>
> Basically I'm working on a product that uses the Annotea protocol. 
> Given a resource, it'll retrieve all the annotations and display them 
> all, including their bodies. The problem I'm having is that querying 
> for that resource will return a list of pointers to annotations and 
> their bodies, after which I'll need to GET all the annotations, and 
> then all their bodies. That's a lot of HTTP requests, in our case it 
> could easily translate to hundreds of them.
>
> The Annotea Protocol WD (or whatever its equivalent in modern W3C 
> process is) doesn't offer the option to retrieve all annotations and 
> their bodies in the first query, or failing that to at least get 
> annotation and body together. I was wondering if someone out there had 
> implemented something like that, or had ideas about it.
>
> Thanks!
>
> --Robin Berjon - http://berjon.com/
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> As best as I can make out, neither statement is not always correct.
>                         -- Doug Schepers
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Received on Tuesday, 21 November 2006 17:11:34 UTC