[annotator-dev] Annotator

[Aron Carroll]

Hi Charles,

It's great to hear that you're interested in using the annotator
within your website.

I don't think there are currently any intentions to build a PHP
backend for the annotator however I certainly agree that it would be
extremely useful to have especially for those looking to get up and
running quickly.

We've been working on improving the documentation for the annotator
store but getting a basic backend up and running should be relatively
simple. If you're looking to build you own backend some good places to
start would be the wiki for the store plugin
(http://github.com/okfn/annotator/wiki/Store-Plugin) which describes
the endpoints required and the actual annotation format is described
here, http://github.com/okfn/annotator/wiki/Annotation-format.

I've copied the annotator-dev mailing list in on this message incase
anyone else wants to chip in and feel free to drop me (and the list)
an email if you have further questions.

Cheers,
Aron

On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 12:55 PM, Charles Seale <seale61 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Greetings Aron,
>
> My name is Charles Seale and I am the developer for a site called
> coursedocs.com, an AJAX Web application that allows college writing courses
> to be taught online using a real-world classroom workflow model and stores
> all data (papers) on the server (in the cloud).  The only real shortcoming
> of our product is peer and teacher commenting on student papers.  Your
> annotator script/program is an ideal solution to our problem (it's a
> beautiful piece of work by the way)  The problem is that our app is written
> in PHP using a MySql database, and Annotator is Python with an sqlite.  I
> was wondering if any plans were in the works for a PHP backend.  If not, I
> would be willing to give it a shot, if for no other reason than to better
> incorporate Annotator into our Web application (giving you proper credit of
> course), but also to make Annotator more accessible to the many Web
> applications that, like ours, are PHP based.  I would really like to get
> your thoughts on this, and wonder if you would be interested in a PHP branch
> for Annotator.
>
> Thanks,
> Charles Seale
> seale61 at gmail.com
> charles at coursedocs.com
> +1 205 454-9181