Re: [docbook-apps] Ideas needed: Annotation mechanism for DocBook

Jean Jordaan wrote:
> Here are some links to annotation mechanisms.
> 
> http://www.w3.org/2001/Annotea/
> """.. we use an RDF based annotation schema  for describing annotations
> as metadata and XPointer  for locating the annotations in the annotated
> document."""

Thank you for this link.

As far as I see, Annotea need a special browser (amaya being the only 
one at this time) and a special server.

This is not what we have in mind. The annotating system we want to have 
should be able to be used by every visitor (it should be lynx-proof).

> 
> Everything Ka-Ping Yee does is worth studying closely. His Crit is the
> first public annotation system for the Web. It also doesn't require
> anything to be done on the side of the document to be annotated. It's
> oriented toward HTML, but if you have a browser that can display XML,
> I guess Crit could be adapted to work with it.
> http://zesty.ca/
> http://crit.org/

The latter link is unfortunately dead, but I got the Software from a Wiki

http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/mb.pl?CritLink

I'll have to evaluate this...

Nevertheless, out student *must* build such a system because we offered 
this a a graduate internship to which he applied.

> 
> Comparative overview:
> http://www.math.grin.edu/~rebelsky/Blazers/Annotations/Summer1999/Papers/survey_paper.html 

Oh thank you, that's very useful!

Joachim

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