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symbioidljThis is something with regards to Collaborative HTML work that I've been thinking about for sometime, and I've seen something about it before from the W3C, but haven't read much in a while on it.
The concept is interesting, and it's making headway. Although, I'm not sure if the approach their taking is the best, but I don't really see any other option.
This is the idea of Annotation on HTML. The W3C version is called Annotea:
http://www.w3.org/2001/Annotea/
They have a web-browser called Amaya, and there's a plugin available for Mozilla called Annozilla. This is all still very preliminary.
At the Annotea site, they say that there is limited annotation in some other systems, but Annotea allows the usage of "XPointer"(an XML schema) in which to select text within a document and bookmark/highlight/comment on it. This is something that I've thought about since '98/'99 or so. I don't know how long the Annotea project has been around, I know it's been around a few years, because that's when I last saw it. I think this is really the next step in collaborative Web, and it's necessary. The web, as static environment is too limited. By all these great things we have going now, from Blogs, to communities such as Everything2 and Metafilter, "community blogs" as such, and Wikis, we have the evolution of what the web should be, and I think it's something along the lines that Tim Berners-Lee really wanted it to go. Isn't he a "Sir" Berners-Lee now? I thought he got some orders or something.
Anyways, think about that concept for a minute. The ability to bookmark selections within a site, and not just a site. And to categorize and annotate them. This will expand collaboration and research tremendously.
Now, imagine e-books(yeah yeah yeah, they're "dead") but maybe think of a laptop with an annotation-style hypertext document system. Students can have projects together, and link up their research into a central server, and collaborate with this information on their own and together, all through a basic interface. Imagine having the power of a highlighter to select text within a book, but then to bookmark it and tie it all together with other data at once, right there, easy and accessible.
Integrated data for a report.
I just love this idea and I hope it comes to a beautiful fruition. I hope the solution is elegant.
Sometimes, I think that a browser is really too limited a system for such a thing, however.
The concept is interesting, and it's making headway. Although, I'm not sure if the approach their taking is the best, but I don't really see any other option.
This is the idea of Annotation on HTML. The W3C version is called Annotea:
http://www.w3.org/2001/Annotea/
They have a web-browser called Amaya, and there's a plugin available for Mozilla called Annozilla. This is all still very preliminary.
At the Annotea site, they say that there is limited annotation in some other systems, but Annotea allows the usage of "XPointer"(an XML schema) in which to select text within a document and bookmark/highlight/comment on it. This is something that I've thought about since '98/'99 or so. I don't know how long the Annotea project has been around, I know it's been around a few years, because that's when I last saw it. I think this is really the next step in collaborative Web, and it's necessary. The web, as static environment is too limited. By all these great things we have going now, from Blogs, to communities such as Everything2 and Metafilter, "community blogs" as such, and Wikis, we have the evolution of what the web should be, and I think it's something along the lines that Tim Berners-Lee really wanted it to go. Isn't he a "Sir" Berners-Lee now? I thought he got some orders or something.
Anyways, think about that concept for a minute. The ability to bookmark selections within a site, and not just a site. And to categorize and annotate them. This will expand collaboration and research tremendously.
Now, imagine e-books(yeah yeah yeah, they're "dead") but maybe think of a laptop with an annotation-style hypertext document system. Students can have projects together, and link up their research into a central server, and collaborate with this information on their own and together, all through a basic interface. Imagine having the power of a highlighter to select text within a book, but then to bookmark it and tie it all together with other data at once, right there, easy and accessible.
Integrated data for a report.
I just love this idea and I hope it comes to a beautiful fruition. I hope the solution is elegant.
Sometimes, I think that a browser is really too limited a system for such a thing, however.
