"30215.gz.uu" wrote:
Hello zopers,
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Also, these musings reminded me of an old project I had once started, to provide an uniform annotation facility to annotate web pages (using an ad hoc proxy). I abandonned it at the time (it was four or five years ago) because I had discovered that other groups were much more advanced on this, and, if I remember well, the w3c was standardizing such a facility. Then I parted from web work, but (while I did not look for it), I am quite surprised that nothing like it is currently in the hands of web users nowadays.
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Zope strikes me as a server model that could integrate a uniform shared annotations facility on the pages it publishes. Thoughts, pointers, wish to discuss, anyone ?
I have been using Zope to provide an anotating facility to my department(history), though I can not see what "a server model that could integrate a uniform shared annotations facility on the pages it publishes" is. We are anotating some manuscripts, i.e. traditional texts. The problem is, I can not predetermine to what people attache their anotations. A paragraph, a word, a phrase, a sentence or any combination of that. The HTML 4.0 standart has ID attribute. Hence I gave all the paragraphs and head elements in a "documents(250+ html files)" unique ids. that solved problem partially(if you want, you can have definitely finer resolution). Our anotations are save on MySQL database. Though I have created static links to anotation 'window' for each ID, Now I see creating a javascript function which utilizes ID is better. What is realy wanting is the why to dynamically determine the range to which an anotation will be attached. But THIS seems above the current HTML browsers' capability. You may need some jave applets for GENERAL solution. But for reasonably structured documents, you can have partial(coarse grained, predetermined resolution) yet easy local solution. I guess in business (i.e. not in humanites) area that would be enough. Well, I am too poor at English(or any other European languages) to write easily of my situation. Please let me stop here. I'd like to exchange ideas and solutions further. best regards, LEE Kwan Soo