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

Thu Jul 26 21:08:44 UTC 2012

Cool! I have a post submitted to the fluidinfo-discuss mailing list 
proposing a basic design and asking for some refined recommendations, 
I'll see what I hear back.

It's great to hear how you guys are thinking -- I like the openness, 
flexibility and evolutionary approach. Good stuff.

	-Kartik

On 07/26/2012 04:46 PM, Randall Leeds wrote:
> 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
> <mailto: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
>     <mailto: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 <http://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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