[annotator-dev] Annotator for the British Museum?

Fri Jul 8 14:43:21 UTC 2011

These sound like great ideas.

@Johnny (Mark?): would you be up for creating an issue (or issues)
describing what you'd like to see in more detail here:

<http://github.com/okfn/annotator/issues>

Rufus

On 8 July 2011 14:58, Mark MacGillivray <mark at odaesa.com> wrote:
> Hi Johnny, I have done similar work and also would like to have social
> networking over the comments. I had added this to my own version
> before joining the annotator group - although I have yet to do
> anything with annotator!
>
> Perhaps if others also think this is worthwhile, we could add it?
> Having a unique URL for a comment would I think be pretty easy - the
> annotator code just has to be updated to look for a URL param and if
> it finds one, display the relevant comment when the page is requested.
> Pushing the comments out via twitter / facebook etc should be pretty
> easy too, and could be combined with a URL shortening service too.
>
> Mark
>
>
>
> On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 12:52 PM, johnny jiang
> <johnny.nan.jiang at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi everyone,
>> I'm thinking about making some contribution to the project. Especially in
>> the social networking area where I personally think annotations could be
>> wildly shared and propagated. A scenario is that each annotation/comment has
>> options of sharing on Twitter, Facebook, or other SNSs. Of course achieving
>> this might need a permanent unique link to each annotation/comment.
>> Please feel free to say your opinions and let me know if my thinking is in
>> the right direction of the Annotator project.
>> Kind regards,
>> Johnny
>> On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 9:17 PM, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Yes, very much of interest.
>>>
>>> Rufus
>>>
>>> On 8 July 2011 09:37, James Harriman-Smith <openliterature at okfn.org>
>>> wrote:
>>> > Hi everyone,
>>> > I was at an event in London yesterday talking about Open Shakespeare,
>>> > and
>>> > got an enormous amount of positive feedback about annotation.
>>> > Afterwards,
>>> > Adrian Cooper (CEO of Intelligent Heritage, currently working
>>> > on http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/) told me that he was about
>>> > to
>>> > start a project with the British Museum, for which they require a way to
>>> > annotate documents as they curate them. Is this of interest? If so, I'll
>>> > ping Adrian with details of this list.
>>> > James
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