- From: Charles McCathieNevile <charles@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2001 08:22:55 -0400 (EDT)
- To: "Sean B. Palmer" <sean@mysterylights.com>
- cc: <w3c-wai-er-ig@w3.org>, <www-annotation@w3.org>
I would like to talk about EARL and annotea too. More interspersed... On Wed, 4 Jul 2001, Sean B. Palmer wrote: [snip] Things I'm wondering:- * The distinction between EARL "reporting" and Annotea "annotating" doesn't seem clear. EARL already has a mechanism for saying "this is the thing that we're talking about", so I don't get why it would be in an annotation. What would the annotation be about? Do we need a subset of EARL to put in the annotation? CMN No, it wouldn't need to be a subset, it should be EARL. The value of Annotea is a mechanism for finding EARL reports - just one of several possibilities, but I think an intersting one nonetheless, in part becuase it is built on similar technology. SBP * How easy is it to modify the existing annotea tools to simply generate EARL, as it is, straight up? CMN Errr, quite hard really. It is probably easier to modify tools which would produce EARL to post the EARL as an annotation (as one option) SBP * Annotations have methods for saying "the content type of this body is x". This is something that we still need to sort out amongst ourselves: how to identify a piece of content as being EARL, and whether or not we even need to. CMN True. We should talk to folks who are identifying other RDF stuff, in general. I have also talked a little to the annotea folks about identifying EARL within an annotation, which is a seperate problem to do with the internal workings of their schema. SBP * Annotea treats :Body content as parseType="literal", which is incorrect in our case, because we're putting RDF in there. Having said that, I'm not sure how it would fit into the annotation model if it was left as RDF. CMN Me too, but that is a problem we should sort out with the annotea folks SBP * Can't annotations be stored as XLinks? CMN They are ore or less a subset of Xlinks, and I believe can be transferred to be Xlinks, if you have a mechanism for storing Xlinks. But I am not certain.
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