Annotea and Atom

[Danny Ayers <danny.ayers@xxxxxxxxx>]

Just a thought in passing - there's quite an overlap between the
functionality of the W3C's Annotea protocol [1] and what's needed for
Atom. May be pointers to things that may have been overlooked, the
whole thing makes a nice use case. It uses fairly regular RDF/XML so
it may be possible to XSLT directly (without syntax normalization)
between Annotea and Atom messages (and vice versa) - making Amaya
Atom-capable would be cool.

Cheers,
Danny.

[1] http://www.w3.org/2001/Annotea/User/Protocol

[[
Annotea is a system for creating and publishing shareable annotations
of Web documents. Built on HTTP, RDF, and XML, Annotea provides an
interoperable protocol suitable for implementation within Web browsers
to permit users to attach data to Web pages such that other users may,
at their choice, see the attached data when they later browse the same
pages. The Annotea protocol works without modifying the original
document; that is, there is no requirement that the user have write
access to the Web page being annotated. The Annotea protocol is
suitable both for annotation data that is expected to be primarily for
human viewing as well as annotation data that is expected to be
consumed by other application programs, such as automatic
classification tools, search engines, and workflow applications.
]]
-- 

http://dannyayers.com