I have been wondering about the next steps myself, I'm eager to get at least the demoed functionality to a usable state soon. If you like, we could have a call one of these days?
Randall &/| Benjamin, would you then like to join? Otherwise I'd be glad to catch up some other time with the two of you (and perhaps other interested people!). - Gerben PS for your interest, I think the term "direct linking" was inherited from Hypothesis; via.hypothes.is <https://via.hypothes.is> is very similar to what you are making (as you probably already knew). On 02.04.2018 09:40, Vincent den Boer wrote: > 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
