[annotator-dev] open shakespeare and finals club

[Nick Stenning]

Dear Andrew & James (& Annotator dev listees),

Well, the change that needs to happen is that the Store plugin
'loadFromSearch' feature needs to take into account the 'total' field,
which gives the total number of annotations matching the query.

The search endpoint accepts 'offset' and 'limit' parameters, and these
can be used to page through all available annotations. A good
implementation of this would ensure that the loading was asynchronous,
didn't lock up the browser, and perhaps displayed some kind of loading
indicator.

Sadly, a fundamental limitation of Annotator's storage model (fixed by
TEXTUS) is that we can't sort annotations by position-in-document, so
loading all annotations in this way is really the only good approach.

If David is able to submit a pull request for the Store plugin (with
tests) I will happily review, merge, and deploy the updated code to
OpenShakespeare. If he (or anyone else) does start work, please ask
him to fire an email to me (or, better, this list) so we don't
accidentally duplicate effort.

Best wishes,
Nick

On 10 Jul 2012, at 08:09, James Harriman-Smith
<james.harriman-smith at cantab.net> wrote:

> Just been back on OpenShakespeare, and wanted to add my thanks to
> Andrew's. The blog post is all ready to go now, but I'll hold off
> posting until the display issues are sorted: do keep me updated on how
> this is going.
>
> James
>
> On 9 July 2012 20:56, Andrew at FinalsClub.org <andrew at finalsclub.org> wrote:
>> Thanks for the update, Nick.  It's good to know the annotations were salvaged, particularly before James goes blogging about them.  ;-)
>>
>> As for the other issues with OpenShakespeare, is there anything David (one of our developers) can do to help?

>> Andrew
>>
>> On Jul 8, 2012, at 12:11 PM, Nick Stenning wrote:
>>
>>> On 2012-07-04 17:18, Andrew Magliozzi wrote:
>>>
>>>> Thanks for the good word, James,
>>>
>>>> Also, I think you forgot to cc @Nick re the technical troubles. I hope
>>> we get them resolved soon too.
>>>
>>> Hi both,
>>>
>>> Just to say that some of the technical difficulties have now been
>>> resolved. Namely, as part of the ongoing issues we're having with our
>>> current hosters, some of the annotations were lost from the store. The
>>> people responsible for keeping our servers online apparently randomly
>>> rebooted the relevant machine while the new annotations were indexing...
>>>
>>> Anyway, the missing annotations have since been replaced, and a quick
>>> query suggests that all 3097 of the FinalsClub annotations are now in
>>> the database:
>>>
>>> http://annotateit.org/api/search_raw?q=_exists_:finalsclub_id&size=0
>>>
>>> The second half of the technical difficulties are resolutely my problem,
>>> and involve making Annotator load an arbitrary number of annotations
>>> into a page without locking up the browser. I hope to find some time to
>>> look at this in the near future.
>>>
>>> Best wishes,
>>> Nick
>>>
>>
>
>
>
> --
> James Harriman-Smith
> Lecteur d'anglais
> ENS de Lyon
> Bureau F323