[annotator-dev] Annotator for the British Museum?

[johnny jiang]

Thanks guys for all your advise.

I think the cons and pros of this idea could be:

Benefits:
1. Given that SNS is the most popular platform nowadays, it could make the
book more open to the public.
2. One could spread his comments via Twitter, Facebook, and Google+  to his
followers, and this could potentially attract more people to the book (the
source).
3. We kind of delegate the social functionality to those SNSs, and just
concentrate on annotating, which is the main focus.
4. This actually could be another topic where I would like to talk about
OAuth and OpenID. If one can log in to www.openshakespeare.org with his
Google, Facebook, or Twitter account, then he could potentially utilize the
existing social functions of those SNSs. Eg: he could chat with GTalk, and
establish a book group via Facebook, so we kind of delegate many functions
to those SNSs, and don't have to re-invent wheels. One example could be the
online chatting function on www.bookglutton.com, which I personally think is
unnecessary to re-invent.

Risks:
1. SNS elements could make the UI distracting and complex. Chances are we
could make it display only when needed.
2. It might be unnecessary for books or articles that have restricted
copyrights and permissions.

Please feel free to let me know your opinions.

Also here is a demo of the idea that has been implemented for my own
annotation app. SNS options will display when you hover on the comment.
http://www.cxware.net/social-reading/book/1/chapter/1/comment/208/html

I didn't mean to bring in another annotation system, it was just developed
by myself without knowing your excellent project. I'm trying to align my
think with your project, as it is great and is my very interest.

Kind regards
Johnny

On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 8:31 AM, Nick Stenning <nick at whiteink.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 12:52, 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.
>
> Hi Johnny,
>
> I think this is an excellent idea, and I'm particular keen to see this
> used in situations where Annotator might bring accountability to (say)
> online journalism, advertising, etc.
>
> I've not thought too deeply about it, but I suspect it may be
> technically quite challenging to implement for sites where Annotator
> is injected using a bookmarklet.
>
> For sites such as OpenShakespeare it would, I think, be relatively
> easy to add a plugin (and some appropriate window.location.hash
> trickery) to link to a particular annotation on the page. This would
> require the cooperation of the OpenShakespeare site admins (which I
> think we'll get without too much trouble ;o)...).
>
> The problem with other websites is that there's no way to force
> Annotator to load into a page using only a link. Or is there? I'd love
> to be proven wrong. The only way I can think you might make some
> progess would involve <iframe>s. But even then I bet browser security
> restrictions will prevent you from doing anything as dramatic as
> running code in the <iframe> context.
>
> I'll be watching with interest. I'd love to spend some time on
> Annotator but am pretty busy with other projects at the moment.
>
> Best wishes,
> Nick
>
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