On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 11:28, Walter Bender <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 11:23 AM, Samuel Klein <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 11:14 AM, Walter Bender <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 10:58 AM, Samuel Klein <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> Aggregation. >>> >>> That could mean a lot of things. Could you please be more specific? >> >> The use case that seems interesting to the widest range of people is >> - to make comments [on a book] that will be shared with others in >> your {class, reading group, network} > > This already works as part of the Read activity, AFAIK. > >> - 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?
Finnegans Wiki, at http://www.finnegansweb.com/, is an extreme case, where nearly every word is annotated extensively. >> - 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. > > -walter > -- > Walter Bender > Sugar Labs > http://www.sugarlabs.org > _______________________________________________ > Library mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/library > -- Edward Mokurai (默雷/धर्ममेघशब्दगर्ज/دھرممیگھشبدگر ج) Cherlin Silent Thunder is my name, and Children are my nation. The Cosmos is my dwelling place, the Truth my destination. http://www.earthtreasury.org/ _______________________________________________ Library mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/library
