Hello Ben, > Is that still something you’re available to help with?
In short, yes. Refactoring the part of the H client that integrates with PDF.js to support creation and presentation of highlights into a self-contained module with no dependencies on the Annotator 1.2.x code is on our technical roadmap. On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 1:50 PM, Benjamin Young <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey Robert, > > > > Along these lines, one of the things we’d (you, me, other hypothes.is folks) > discussed back in Berlin in the spring was Hypothes.is potentially > donating/extracting the PDF annotation bits—or permitting this project to. > > > > Is that still something you’re available to help with? > > > > Thanks! > > Benjamin > > > > -- > http://bigbluehat.com/ > http://linkedin.com/in/benjaminyoung > > > > From: Robert Knight > Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2016 8:11 AM > To: [email protected] > Cc: Benjamin Young; [email protected] > Subject: Re: [annotator-dev] Using annotator locally? > > > > Hello John, > > The Hypothesis client, originally built on a fork of the Annotator > project, might help if you are looking for an open source solution to > annotate either PDFs or web content - see > https://github.com/hypothesis/client . It does not store annotations > in the PDF itself, but using an instance of the Hypothesis service - > for which you can either use the public one we provide (at > https://hypothes.is) or you can run your own instance (which is not > too tricky, but I will preface with the caveat that we can only > provide limited support with any issues that come up). > > If you can provide a few more details about your needs I might be able > to provide more guidance on using Hypothesis and/or recommend > alternative solutions. > > Kind Regards, > Rob. > > On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 2:17 AM, John Kitchin <[email protected]> > wrote: >> That also looks interesting! Thanks for the tip. >> >> It looks like I am heading in a PDF annotation direction, but I like the >> idea of HTML annotation a little better, especially if there are >> open-source annotation solutions. >> >> Benjamin Young writes: >> >>> Hey John! >>> >>> Actually...before you wander off :wink: let me introduce you to this app >>> http://dokie.li/ >>> >>> I'd forgotten that it *already* does inline storing of annotations and >>> meaningful content (via RDFa)--not to mention all the other amazing >>> things it does. :) >>> >>> I've CC'd the creator of dokie.li and he can tell all of us more about >>> it. ;) >>> >>> Cheers! >>> Benjamin >>> >>> On 10/8/2016 10:28 AM, John Kitchin wrote: >>>> Thanks for the reply. It is very helpful. It doesn't sound like this is >>>> the path forward for what I am trying do for now, but maybe some time in >>>> the future. Best wishes with this project, it looks very interesting! >>>> >>>> >>>> Benjamin Young writes: >>>> >>>>> Hey John, >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Thanks for writing! >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> This is not currently something that Annotator is built to do, but in >>>>> the 2.x system there is pluggable storage system that could possible serve >>>>> in this case. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> That said, it’s probably a better fit to have that “compilation” (HTML >>>>> + annotations = more HTML ;) ) made “last” (at the authors discretion) >>>>> via a >>>>> “Save As…” options or some such. The code would keep the annotation >>>>> separately, perhaps in localStorage or PouchDB [1] and then “materialize” >>>>> the lot of it as HTML when requested. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Also, I’m CCing the Apache Annotator (incubating) mailing list where >>>>> activity is gradually re-growing around this and other annotation related >>>>> code. I’d love to have you join us there! >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Hope that’s helpful! >>>>> >>>>> Benjamin >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> http://bigbluehat.com/ >>>>> http://linkedin.com/in/benjaminyoung >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> From: John Kitchin<mailto:[email protected]> >>>>> Sent: Friday, October 7, 2016 12:44 PM >>>>> To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> >>>>> Subject: [annotator-dev] Using annotator locally? >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Hi everyone, >>>>> >>>>> I wondered if it is possible to use annotator to annotate local html >>>>> files, and store the annotations locally (preferrably in the local >>>>> file). >>>>> >>>>> What I have in mind is that students would submit an html file of their >>>>> work, by email, or Dropbox/Google Drive/etc. We would annotate the >>>>> files >>>>> with feedback and the grade, and return them. >>>>> >>>>> Does this sound like something that is possible with annotator? >>>>> >>>>> Thanks, >>>> >> >> >> -- >> Professor John Kitchin >> Doherty Hall A207F >> Department of Chemical Engineering >> Carnegie Mellon University >> Pittsburgh, PA 15213 >> 412-268-7803 >> @johnkitchin >> http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu > > > > -- > Kind Regards, > Rob -- Kind Regards, Rob
