On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 11:28 AM, Walter Bender <[email protected]> wrote:
> This already works as part of the Read activity, AFAIK. I wouldn't say that annotations aggregate; they are simply a bit of metadata that can be associated with an instance of a document. At best, I could get an instance of your doc with annotations, and later add my own to that instance. But unless we carefully exchange the latest version of the doc between ourselves, and delete previous versions of that doc on our systems, things get confusing. And there's no way for two separately marked-up documents to merge their annotations. >> - to have a global namespace for comments/annotations/reviews >> allowing searching for such annotations made by other people > > That is not something we do yet. Is there a good exemplar to look at? This is an unsolved part of the puzzle that Andreas was particularly interested in. It's generally unsolved for comments/reviews/notes on works or products of all sorts, though many siloed solutions have been tried over the years. >> - for the above to be integrated simply into the normal process of >> discovering, opening and reading a book >> > > I am not sure how to integrate the global namespace into the normal > process if connectivity is not universal. We really need to be careful > re how global network access is tied to Sugar activities as it breaks > things for children in many places: Peru, Nepal, etc. The "cloud" is > not a practical reality yet in many (most) of our deployments. It is if you consider a group of students in one classroom to be a local cloud. The cloud model maps pretty well onto that scenario. Right now the extent to which we support sharing annotations (from the first point above) doesn't integrate simply into discovery, opening, and reading. * local-network discovery doesn't work. It's a push sharing model only; I have to be online and actively sharing a doc for you to find it. * tracking of variations on a file over time doesn't work as expected. That makes it hard to aggregate comments even within a single machine and user over time on similar docs. * clustering of documents, activities, or other entities by name or ID across the local network doesn't work. If I share a doc with you and you reshare it with others and it comes back to me, there's no way to associate the new version I encounter with the one I already have. * 'find a book' search (when searching an online or schoolserver library) doesn't support searching annotations, or even finding whether annotations exist -- annotations are treated as something transient associated with a document found on the network or in a journal, not something lasting. SJ _______________________________________________ Library mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/library
