With the speed with which the annotation stream idea is being worked up, I can see the time is ripe to revisit the idea of an information mixing desk (cf an audio mixing desk).
Info feeds come in at the top, stories can get boosted/attenuated in the presentation order according to eg timeliness, keywords, locale etc etc (cf bass, treble etc), effects applied to feeds correspond perhaps to annotation feeds, perhaps to info pulled in from other services (eg if a story/feed is tagged, then delicious can be mined for related pages, and perhaps even related feeds (hmm - does delicious support rss or webservice linktypes, so you can just search on those?) But that's by the by... What I meant to post was: As I understand it, the annotationStream idea allows a user to provide a set of annotations that can be applied to a particular original feed. But what if I want to define a feed that is a combination of several distinct annotationStreams defined at quite a high level? is there any merit in going a step further and having an annotationMix (or annotationPatch?) (that may or may not be an annotationStream?) that contains eg one or more <useAnnotationStream annotationURI="URI-for-annotation-service" /> tags and defines which bits of those various annotations from each feed should be used in the final annotationMix? It wouldn;t go as far as defining an xslt to remix the final feed, but would be useful as a config file for a mixer of several feeds, perhaps, or setting up an XSLT to generate the final annotated/mixed feed? tony - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html.
