[okfn-dev] Annotator Permissions plugin API

Mon Feb 28 12:37:54 UTC 2011

Excellent! Very much look forward to seeing this. :-)

On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 11:44 AM, Aron Carroll
<aron.carroll.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks Jonathan,
> By default the Annotator won’t be able to support all of these options out
> of the box. However I’m pretty sure all of these situations can be
> accommodated by using the custom authorisation feature.
> I’ll be working creating some good documentation on how this works this
> week.
> Cheers,
> Aron
> On 23 Feb 2011, at 12:02, Jonathan Gray wrote:
>
> Very excited about this!
>
> Don't know if it helps but here are a few use cases:
>
>  * I'm a lawyer and I want to share comments on a legal text with 1
> or 2 other people
>  * I'm an academic and I want to use the system for my own private
> annotations on a public domain texts, which I may wish to share with
> my graduate students at some point
>  * I'm working on a research project and I want to create annotations
> which everyone can see, but which only people in my project can edit
>  * I'm working on a distributed research project with lots of other
> researchers in a field. I want to allow researchers in my network (not
> all of them who I'll know) to edit a reasonably large collection of
> texts (e.g. 100-400 texts)
>
> Can think up plenty more if useful. ;-)
>
> J.
>
> On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 11:50 AM, Aron Carroll
> <aron.carroll.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I’m looking to get some feedback on the API for the Annotator Permissions
>
> plugin (this was previously
>
> called the User plugin).
>
> Rather than complicate the plugin’s logic with details like groups I think
>
> it should be abstracted out into
>
> a callback in the same way as the userId and userString options do at the
>
> moment. This would allow
>
> implementors to create complex permission systems without having to extend
>
> the annotator.
>
> There’s more details (and examples) in the first comment on the ticket on
>
> GitHub
>
> https://github.com/okfn/annotator/issues/22
>
> All thoughts welcome.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Aron
>
>
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