[annotator-dev] To Web Annotation (from Annotator 2.x)

Thu Jul 30 15:23:54 UTC 2015

Hi Benjamin,
I haven’t been following 2.x development closely, but I thought supporting an Open Annotation model natively was on the TODO list for AnnotatorJS.
Sure enough, the road map lists it - http://docs.annotatorjs.org/en/latest/roadmap.html
	- Internal data model consistent with Open Annotation
	- A (beta-quality) storage component that speaks OA JSON-LD

Pretty sure that got pushed back to target a later release though that decision is not yet reflected in the roadmap. Getting Open/Web annotation models from AnnotatorJS is one of the features I really really want from 2.x, so I’m wondering how your plugin conversion work relates to the goals on the 2.x roadmap?

Thanks,
-ben

> On Jul 30, 2015, at 7:54 AM, Benjamin Young <bigbluehat at hypothes.is> wrote:
> 
> I've been working on some (deliberately very) basic conversion code to turn Annotator 2.x JSON output into Web Annotation Data Model.
> 
> Here's what I've got so far:
> 
> http://bigbluehat.github.io/to-web-annotation/
> 
> 
> Code lives at:
> 
> https://github.com/BigBlueHat/to-web-annotation
> The hope is to build the SimplestThingThatCouldPossiblyWork to move Annotator JSON docs into the wide world of Web Annotation.
> 
> I've posted more JSON-LD related thoughts to the W3C list (which is public for anyone to join FYI!):
> https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-annotation/2015Jul/0225.html
> 
> It'd be great to hear thoughts on this project and approach from the Annotator side.
> 
> The slightly longer term objective is to make this conversion (once I'm sure it's correct/working well) available as an Annotator plugin for use with storage providers that "speak" Web Annotation.
> 
> Feedback welcome!
> Benjamin
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