[annotator-dev] colored notes

Tue Jan 14 16:17:56 UTC 2014

Hi all,
  for my use case the specific color is important.
The users annotate in red some kind of informations and in green others.

I would divide the problem in two parts:

   - save user defined fields inside the annotation store (which is already
   possibile as far as I know)
   - decide how to color each annotation using a logic defined by its
   metadata

In this way I could decide to give a different style / color to all the
annotations with a given date, coming from a given user, or belonging to a
given category.

This seems to me a very generic and powerfull capability for Annotator.
What do you think about it?

Cheers,
   Riccardo

2014/1/14 Dan Whaley <dwhaley at hypothes.is>

> Steph/Rob,
>
> Can I clarify this question and response?  (Rob— forgive me if I botch
> this up.)
>
> Steph, for context, this arises from a long running discussion w/in the OA
> community about whose responsibility it is to style and to preserve the
> styling of annotations—and where in the data model the style of an
> annotation is recorded and preserved.
>
> In this case, I think the question is something like this:  From your
> perspective, is it necessary that there are distinctive colors or other
> stylings from a pallete and that the same color/effect, with respect to the
> other colors/effects, is aligned on the same annotation persistently.  In
> other words, here are some colors, we’re using them to more easily tell
> annotations and categories of annotations apart from eachother, but any
> colors will do— just don’t mix them up, and keep using the same one once
> it’s been picked.
>
> Or is it important that the specific pink color, Pantone #454 (i’m making
> that up), is applied, and that this same specific color be represented
> wherever the annotation is shown, and by whatever rendering software.
>
> Rob feel free to correct me if I’ve misstated.
>
> D
>
>
> On Jan 14, 2014, at 7:41 AM, Steph Skardal <steph at endpoint.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi Rob,
> >
> > On 01/14/2014 10:37 AM, Robert Sanderson wrote:
> >> Is it the case that the colors, once selected, should persist
> throughout the lifespan of the annotation?  Thus when the user selects the
> pinkish color in the screenshots, all other users should also see that same
> pinkish color.
> >
> > For my project, the colors must persist throughout the lifespan of the
> annotation.
> >
> >
> >>
> >> Is this an important, must-have feature, or only something that could
> be useful in some situations?
> >>
> >
> > In my opinion, I think this is a nice-to-have feature, but not
> necessarily something that needs to be included in the core.
> >
> > Steph
> >
> >
> >
> >
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