On 30.03.2018 12:31, Vincent den Boer wrote: > Hi everyone, > > We're implementing a feature requiring annotations in WorldBrain.io, so I've > begun looking into Apache Annotator. Scrounging the wiki and the website, > I've > come across links to AnnotatorJS and other projects, but have no idea how far > Annotator has diverged from AnnotatorJS. Looking at the incubator-annotator I > see some packages for anchoring annotations (docs anywhere?), but could > anyone > give me an idea how everything connects? As far as I've understood from the > overview, Annotator's main job for now is to convert selectors into anchors, > and vice-versa, right? Are there any more docs? And since I see no "index" > key > in the package.json, is it already meant to be used as a package? If so, what > can we expect in terms of API stability? > > Thanks for your time! > > Best, > Vince
Hi Vincent; cool you are looking at Annotator, sorry for the state it is currently in. ;) As for the relation with AnnotatorJS: there is overlap in people and purpose, but it does not share any code. The approach this time is to make a library of smaller modules, rather than a framework for a whole annotation workflow. At least, that is my understanding so far. As you already noticed, we started making packages for creating and re-anchoring Web Annotation selectors <https://www.w3.org/TR/2017/REC-annotation-model-20170223/#selectors>. There is a simple demo in the source to show the idea; it can also be played with here <https://temp.treora.com/annotator-demo/> (while it is not on the Annotator website yet). Regarding the readiness: it is not fit for using right away since only the very basic cases have been implemented, but the setup is all there to implement missing functionality. It mainly needs some more love to help get it going! Let know if you have more questions, want to share your use case, or have ideas to contribute. Cheers, Gerben
