[annotator-dev] Looking at Fluidinfo as a possible backend for Annotate

Thu Jul 26 20:46:54 UTC 2012

Dan and I have actually talked to Neil Levine (cc'd) about storing
annotations on FluidInfo. I can't speak for him, but I suspect he'd really
like to see it  :-)

For myself, I'd really like to experiment with separating the backed store
from the API in annotator-store. For example, to support storing
annotations in a SQL DB, doing pub/sub through redis and full-text indexing
in ElasticSearch (simultaneously). So I'd be very interested to see
anything you come up with in order to better understand the range of
capabilities provided by different storage choices in an attempt to define
an appropriate, coherent API that supports a superset of the features
enabled by the various data stores.
On Jul 26, 2012 1:50 PM, "Rufus Pollock" <rufus.pollock at okfn.org> wrote:

> Hi Kartik,
>
> Would definitely be interested to see a fluid-info backend if you were
> interested in coding this up -- we're always interested in seeing new
> backends in addition to the standard one the project provides as a
> default in the form of http://annotateit.org/ (which runs of the the
> Annotator Store https://github.com/okfn/annotator-store)
>
> Rufus
>
> On 26 July 2012 19:44, Kartik Subbarao <subbarao at computer.org> wrote:
> > I'm looking at the possibility of using fluidinfo as a backend store for
> > annotator:
> >
> > http://doc.fluidinfo.com/fluidDB/overview.html
> >
> > Although the code itself isn't open source, fluidinfo runs a freely
> > available database for people to store tagged data on any type of object
> > (which could certainly include annotations on web sites). The framework
> is
> > pretty extensive and seems to be a potentially good fit for use with
> > annotator/hypothes.is.
> >
> > I was wondering whether there might be some interest among folks here to
> see
> > a fluidinfo back-end for annotator. Also, I'd be curious if there might
> be
> > any interest in leveraging fluidinfo's capabilities further -- for
> example,
> > if a user has added other tags on fluidinfo to a web site, such as a
> rating,
> > would it make sense to display that rating alongside any annotations that
> > they may have made?
> >
> > I recognize that there's probably some overlap in functionality here as
> > well, and there may be some divergent approaches. But I wanted to ask
> > whether there might be enough of a complementary capability set between
> > fluidinfo and annotator to investigate some integration possibilities
> > further.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> >         -Kartik
> >
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