Hi Gerben, Thanks for your quick reply and for the very useful clarifications! The demos helped to get a more visual picture of what's going on.
As for our use case, what we're implementing right now are 1) making annotations to any page through a web extension, to store them locally, and 2) making annotations, which are stored on a server and shareable through a link (which we internally call Direct Linking.) When such a link is followed, our server fetches the page from the stored URL, injects a script into this HTML to apply the stored annotations, and then returns the page to the user. In short, we need the functionality demonstrated in the demo you've sent :) How can we help you to get this into a state where we can implement it? Is there a roadmap with important things to solve? From what you and Randall say, I believe we'll need to implement this before you ship the first version, so we'd be to contribute to get this project closer to a more stable state. Best regards, Vincent On zaterdag 31 maart 2018 00:36:19 CEST Gerben wrote: > 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
