Notes of some things discussed today (feel free to supplement): – supporting WorldBrain’s Memex use case (see relevant thread); a good start may be to have a corpus of documents and annotations for those to create a test suite with. – relatedly, the idea came up to help our users anchor annotations created by Hypothesis[0] or H-derived applications. This could make it easier for such applications to start using Apache Annotator, without worrying that their existing annotations will no longer anchor as before. We could approach this either in usage examples, or in our code base itself (perhaps we accept an ‘H compatibility mode’ flag?); possibly by wrapping the actual Hypothesis anchoring code with our asynchronous API. – generally, we lack an easy way to describe a target selection in multiple ways, and conversely an easy way to resolve (anchor) a bunch of alternative selectors (using some strategy of e.g. the order in which to try apply them). – for approximate text quote anchoring, we may want to look into Robert Knight’s work again[1]. – we could easily add support for anchoring an XPathSelector[2] using modern browsers’ built-in XPathEvaluator[3]. Conversely, i.e. describing selections as XPaths, is not as obvious to solve as there are many ways to describe the same target.
[0] https://hypothes.is/ [1] https://github.com/robertknight/approx-string-match-js/ [2] https://www.w3.org/TR/2017/REC-annotation-model-20170223/#xpath-selector [3] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/XPathEvaluator On 30/04/2020 15:51, Benjamin Young wrote: > Woot! Should be there today. And hopefully in time. ;-P > ________________________________ > From: Gerben <ger...@treora.com.INVALID> > Sent: Thursday, April 30, 2020 9:08:54 AM > To: dev@annotator.incubator.apache.org <dev@annotator.incubator.apache.org> > Subject: Re: Weekly calls/chats? > > Reminder: next call is in two hours, 15:00 UTC in > <https://meet.jit.si/apache-annotator>
