Hi all, One constant use case/need I have for a tool that could (probably very easily) be built on Apache Annotator is a "bridge" between Text Fragments and Web Annotations. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Text_fragments
I'm currently writing tests for W3C Verifiable Credentials as part of the W3C specification publication process. I'd done this before as part of the Web Annotation Working Group years ago. Both times, I wanted (and did/do as much as possible each time) to associate each test with the quotation from the specification. Currently, I'm using Text Fragments: https://github.com/w3c/vc-data-model-2.0-test-suite/blob/main/tests/10-vcdm2.js#L58-L60 What I lack is a way to check whether those quotations are still accurate on the current specification (as during Working Group life, those can change often). The idea would be to take a list of URLs containing Text Fragments and turn them into an Annotation Collection of text quote selection annotations, then run those through Apache Annotator on the page (possibly with the use of a headless DOM environment), and return the list of quotes that were not found (aka "orphaned annotations"). My priorities continue to keep me elsewhere, but I thought I'd share in case someone else had the same need or a burning interest in making something simple with Apache Annotator. :) Cheers, Benjamin -- https://bigbluehat.com/ https://linkedin.com/in/benjaminyoung
