RE: Annotation Services?

I revisited this idea with Alexander Limi at the EuroPython conference last month, and what we talked about is that there needs to be some sort of javascript-based front-end to the Annotation server that would be implemented as a Plone add-on product.

The backend server, ZAnnot, is already developed but currently requires a 3rd party client program such as annozilla (for Mozilla), and no such client that I know of exists for Internet Explorer or Mac users.

That is why it's important to develop a solution in javascript that is cross-browser / cross-platform. 

I think this idea has great potential, but so far no one has stepped up to the plate to develop and/or sponsor it. Any takers?

Alexander also suggested earlier that such a product would be highly suited for a sprint, so if someone wants to organize one (perhaps at the upcoming Plone conference in September), that might be an opportune time to get an initial product developed.

Nate


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Hi,

I posed this question on plone-dev with no response so I thought I would 
try it here, where the thread was discussed a while ago.

I am wondering if anyone is still interested in exploring the 
possibility of integrating annotation services within plone - ie 
developing a annotea client which runs in an ordinary browser (perhaps 
using sarrisa, or even within flash).

The idea has been floated in the past, but seems to have trailed off... 
  Has this idea been abandoned?  Did it prove unfeasible, or did it just 
fade away unexplored?


Thanks,
Jonah

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.zope.plone.documentation/
586/match=annotea

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.zope.plone.educational/183/match=annotea

From: Nate Aune, Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 18:45:32 +0200 We may want to 
look at an entirely different solution for commenting,
such as ZAnnot which implements an Annotea server in Zope.
http://www.zope.org/Members/Crouton/ZAnnot/

Then you can use a tool like Annozila (plug-in for Mozilla), or develop
a javascript-based client in Plone to make annotations *ON* the page,
without modifying the page itself.
http://annozilla.mozdev.org/

From: Alexander Limi, Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 10:15:36 +0200> -
Annotation-ServicesRice University has developed a standards-compliant
annotation server for
Zope that I would like to integrate into Plone. This task is highly suited
for a sprint, and is one of the things I would like to propose for the
sprint too.
The product provides an annotation server for Zope, implementing the W3C's
Annotea (URL at end of mail) protocol which allows clients to add
annotations to web pages without modifying the pages' source.
Essentially what we need to do is to write a Zope/Plone client to interact
with this annotation server, so we don't have to rely on the users having
dedicated Annotation clients installed.








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