Re: Annotea and Atom

[Danny Ayers <danny.ayers@xxxxxxxxx>]

Heh, I don't know whether to blush because of my lousy memory or
because of the progress rate of the project. Expect another reminder
next year if protocol 1.0 isn't in the bag...


On Sun, 26 Sep 2004 07:54:07 -0400, Joe Gregorio <joe.gregorio@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Almost one year ago:
> 
> http://www.imc.org/atom-syntax/mail-archive/msg00777.html
> 
> It was a good idea then too :)
> 
>     -joe
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Sun, 26 Sep 2004 12:03:42 +0200, Danny Ayers <danny.ayers@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > 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.
> > ]]
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