[annotator-dev] [DRAFT at 2] Apache Incubator Proposal

[Robert Knight]

Hello Ben,

Thank-you for kicking things off. I'm not familiar with the Apache
Incubator process so I'd like to spend some time looking at the
material to understand it properly. One thing in retrospect I wasn't
really clear on when talking with you at the hackday is how this would
end up relating to different parts of the Hypothesis open source
project.

Based on the discussions I had at iAnnotate and from posts I've seen
elsewhere on the mailing list, there are a number of components in
Hypothesis that different parties might like to re-use:

1. Libraries for anchoring specific types of selectors (quotes,
positions, ranges) in web pages
2. The combined logic for anchoring a web annotation (with multiple
selectors) in a web page
3. Logic for anchoring annotations in other types of content (eg. PDF, EPUB)
4. The Hypothesis client for displaying and editing annotations (the
pane that shows up on the right-hand side of the page when Hypothesis
is activated). In two cases users wanted to use this with custom
document viewers (maps, books, large scanned images)
5. The Hypothesis "memex" service for storing and retrieving annotations
6. A JS client library for communicating with the Hypothesis service
(or anything with a compatible API)

It sounds like (1) would be the initial submission to the proposed
Apache project, but what about the others?

Kind Regards,
Rob.

On 26 May 2016 at 20:33, Benjamin Young <byoung at bigbluehat.com> wrote:
> Hi all!
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> Last July I wrote up a proposal for potentially setting up an Apache
> Software Foundation incubator project for the community and code here.
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> The goal then (as now) was to bring all the interested parties into a
> shared, collaborative space where we could continue the vision of and
> progress on Annotator and related code.
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> Last week at I Annotate and the hackathon that followed, there was general
> support and encouragement to pursue such an idea in hopes of stabilizing the
> community here and bringing in more interest.
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> To that end, I’ve done a (somewhat heavy) revision of the original proposal:
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> https://github.com/openannotation/annotator/wiki/Apache-Incubation-Proposal
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> This revision focuses more on our diverse community and working to ensure
> its longevity.
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> Give that proposal a quick skim, and send in your feedback!
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> Cheers!
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> Benjamin
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> Solutions Architect @ Wiley
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> http://linkedin.com/in/benjaminyoung
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