[annotator-dev] colored notes

Tue Jan 14 16:53:33 UTC 2014

Dan, Riccardo, All,

Yes, I was trying to express the question in more general terms to avoid
biasing the response :)  But Dan has it correct -- is it important that
styling be first persisted, and second that it be replayed in the same way
by other clients.

My opinion is that it is a fundamental requirement that has to be solved,
however I know there are others that disagree.  The interoperability
between systems is the key point for me: if a user annotates in green and
red and then views their annotation in a different client, they should see
the same colors.  Or, if the styling is a red strikethrough (meaning
delete), that should be persisted rather than displayed as a generic
highlight.

Thus, the metadata that records the styling should be readily interpretable
by different clients, rather than client specific, local additions.

Rob

On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 9:17 AM, Riccardo Tasso <riccardo.tasso at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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