Re: [FYI] More annotation support in the latest Amaya release

At 18:41 19/12/01 +0100, Jose Kahan wrote:
>Hello Annotations guys,
>
>Just a small note to tell you that the latest Amaya release (5.3)
>includes some annotation enhancements:
>
>1) It is now possible to annotate other annotations. Previously, you
>could only annotate documents other than annotations.
>
>2) Because an annotation is like a comment, we have been working on a
>    mechanims that allows people to reply to comments. We made a new
>    RDF schema for replies and integrated it into Amaya. You can
>    now reply to annotations. You can see all the discussion thread made
>    from replies in the annotation window. You can also annotate replies.
>    Like annotations, you can keep the replies local to your workstation
>    or publish them to a server.
>
>We're updating our annotation tutorial and will make more info available
>soon.  If you want to try it out, check the latest Amaya and see the Help
>file on annotations.


At the moment Annozilla (my Mozilla client) is confused by the RDF it's 
getting back from requesting a list of annotations for a page, presumably 
because of the changes to the schema.

Annozilla iterates over all RDF resources assuming them to be annotations. 
The new RDF served up includes things like

       <example.org:huh
        xmlns:example.org="http://example.org/">
          <r:Description>
             <a:Email
              r:resource="mailto:matthew+test@mjwilson.demon.co.uk" />
             <a:Family>Wilson</a:Family>
             <a:Given>Matthew</a:Given>
          </r:Description>
       </example.org:huh>

which appears to be causing additional resources to be created. I can hack 
around the problem by ignoring resources without an <a:body/> property (is 
that right right term? sorry, I'm not very good at RDF), but I don't know 
whether that's the right solution or just a workaround.

The bookmarklet servlet seems to be confused as well. Any advice?

Matthew Wilson

Received on Wednesday, 9 January 2002 15:08:20 UTC