Re: Still alive?

On Sun, 21 Mar 2010 04:20:28 +0100, Dorian Taylor (Lists)  =

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> On 20-Mar-10, at 8:13 PM, Laurian Gridinoc wrote:
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>> Is there any installable Annotea server anymore? hmmm, if I were you =
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>> would build my own Annozilla-like extension (over xpointerlib), that =
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>> would follow http://www.openannotation.org style and persist the data=
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>> in a remote triple store installation like 4store.org or on a hosted =
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>> RDF storage like the Talis platform.
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> Not concerned about a working server, I'll just implement the protocol=
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> over top of my existing stuff. Will look at openannotation.org. #1 thi=
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> I want to do is click the little star in FF and have that go to my own=
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> back end.

Having implemented an annotation server on top of some other server syst=
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a decade or so ago, I recall it being pretty easy. If I had a bit of tim=
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now I guess I could do it with Opera Unite - the hard part isn't the  =

server, but the user interaction. I can probably do that with userJS,  =

although I am not sure about creating Xpointers (i.e. that would require=
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me actually learning new stuff).

If anyone is interested in it as a project I'll happily explain better  =

what I am thinking.

cheers

Chaals

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