[okfn-discuss] Annotation

Mon Jan 8 16:03:49 UTC 2007

Yes, I know.  The real idea of putting that up was to play with a IU.
I think the only problem is that I've not actually made the table, but
even if I had, there is no code to display the annotations yet!

It's a bit pointless at the moment...

On 1/8/07, Francis Irving <francis at flourish.org> wrote:
> I got this green error:
>
> There was more than 1 match for the text you tried to annotate. Only
> the first match will be annotated. If you want to annotate a different
> bit of the text please include more of the works arround the section.
>
> But then this also more nasty red one:
>
> user warning: Table 'stern_stern.annotations' doesn't exist query:
> INSERT INTO annotations VALUES(421,27,'Vestibulum consectetuer
> convallis nunc',1) in
> /home/stern/public_html/includes/database.mysql.inc on line 167.
>
> On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 03:35:27PM +0000, Simon Roe wrote:
> > This is an email I sent to Rufus following a conversation about
> > annotation systems.
> >
> > Both of us have seen a need to get some better way of
> > commenting/annotating longer texts on the web.
> >
> > I'm only posting it as a base for more conversation on this list.
> >
> > =========================
> > In short, I gave you a link to: http://stern.talusdesign.co.uk/node/27
> >
> > I'm making the whole thing as a drupal module, so that anyone else
> > running drupal 5 will be able to install it and select what pages will
> > have annotation on them.  This will take all the work out of making
> > something like comment on power for example.  (it's not actually
> > working yet, but it's very close)
> >
> > The whole thing should work without any javascript at all, but it does
> > require copy and paste, so I'm not sure how accessible that makes it.
> > I can't see any way of annotating text if you can't select something
> > though, so copy and paste isn't too much of a big step above that.
> > The finished thing will submit the annotation using javascript if it's
> > enabled.
> >
> > Once an annotation is made, people will be able to comment on it,
> > starting something like a forum thread about that selection of text.
> > One of the main questions is about the display of annotations.  I
> > really don't like the GPL annotator that highlights the words - I feel
> > that it just gets in the way.
> > =========================
> >
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