Re: Annotea and changed files again

If the annotations were totally deleted that was a bug.

Most probably what happened is that the document was changed in a way that 
the XPointer did not make sense anymore and so the annotation became 
orphaned. The orphaned annotation still exists in a Show links view and can 
be moved to a new location by using the Annotations/Move to selection 
command (select the location in the document window, apply the command in 
the annotation window).

We are planning to introduce a new "context" schema so that it is possible 
to define also other kinds of address mechanisms e.g. svg outline for a 
raster image. With the same mechanism it should be possible to add info to 
define more robust pointers. Using frequent ID's in the document elements 
also helps as XPointers are relative to the closest ID in the hierarchy of 
elements. And there are social mechanisms to freeze certain documents.

Also being able to store a snapshot of annotations and the document would 
be beneficial.

Marja

At 05:24 PM 11/11/2002 +0100, Veith Risak wrote:

>Now I checked the behaviour of Annotea (6.4, on LINUX,
>local storage of annotations) systematically:
>
>I wrote an article as usual.
>Then I wrote an annotation to the whole document, closed and reopened it,
>all OK.
>Then I changed some words and stored the file => the annotation was gone.
>
>That means for me, that all annotations for an article are deleted, if
>something was changed.
>
>This behaviour makes using Annotea problematic. Consider the case, that
>you wrote an long article, then proofread it (making appropriate annotations).
>All looks nice, also during making some, but not all, of the necessary
>corrections. (Normally I delete in this process the now unnecessary
>annotations.) But after storing the partially correceed text, all 
>annotations are gone.
>If I am the owner of that file, I can integrate the annotations by setting
>links manually, but this is not convenient.
>
>How can I as a user/author circumvent this problem?
>
>Of course this problem does not arise, if I use Annotea for foreign
>documents in the web to which I have no wirte access.
>But what happens if the owner of this document changes it. He does not
>know, that I annotated his document and Annotea does not know that the
>owner far away changed it.
>
>No problems can occur, if I annotate an red-only hypertext (e.g. on CD).
>And this is quite useful, like annotating by pencil a book.
>
>Kind regards
>
>
>V. Risak
>University of Salzburg
>risak@cosy.sbg.ac.at

Received on Tuesday, 12 November 2002 12:23:03 UTC