Hey Adam! First, huge apologies for letting this slip through the cracks caused by all the holiday-ing (at least for me ;) )!
Second, you're spot on about Web Annotation Protocol being essentially an extension of the Linked Data Platform (LDP) [1] spec. Also, Web Annotations, being based on JSON-LD, can be stored into any triple store. The server-side implementations tested by the W3C so far [2] have used the filesystem, a relational database, or a JSON-friendly NoSQL database (MongoDB, Apache CouchDB, PouchDB, etc). Honestly, database selection is one of the things that has tripped me up in contributing a server implementation. I want it to be database/store agnostic, ideally, but that comes with it's own "tyranny of choice" among data storage abstraction layers. 😋 In the end, it's up to the group to decide what to build and what to build on and in what language...etc. Most of the work has gone into the DOM connective tissue code, and I've brought over some of the Web Annotation Data Model validation code [3]. There's still more to do on all fronts. 😊 Let me know if you have thoughts on the plans here. Your experience with Jena (both as a project and a tool) would be very helpful! Cheers! Benjamin [1] https://www.w3.org/TR/ldp/ [2] https://github.com/w3c/test-results/tree/gh-pages/annotation-protocol#index-of-implementations-tested [3] https://github.com/apache/incubator-annotator/blob/master/test/data-model.mjs -- http://bigbluehat.com/ http://linkedin.com/in/benjaminyoung ________________________________ From: ajs6f <aj...@apache.org> Sent: Wednesday, January 2, 2019 4:14 PM To: dev@annotator.incubator.apache.org Subject: introduction Hi, Annnotator folks! My name is Adam Soroka and I'm a committer for Apache Jena. For a day job I work at the Smithsonian Institution and I've been interested in semantic technology for quite a while in the context of so-called cultural heritage. I watched the W3C Web Annotation WG with interest and I was happy to see extensions developed for the International Image Interoperability Framework [1]. I'm still a little uncertain about the scope of the Annotator project. It seems to include a node.js server component to store and manage annotations as well as browser-side tooling. I was under the impression (very likely wrong!) that annotations, as RDF graphs, could be stored in anything that can store RDF (triplestores, etc.) and that in particular, LDP implementations should be able to support the annotation protocol (almost?) directly. Is this wrong? Are there special requirements on annotation servers that make it appropriate to use a special-purpose part? Thanks for any clarification/info/advice! ajs6f [1] https://iiif.io/api/annex/openannotation/index.html
