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Nick Stenning's Hilbert Problems of Annotation

My summary of Nick Stenning's slides about open problems on the Web for annotation at iannotate.

  • bi-directional links: need to be able to discover when resources are annotated
  • annotation of documents, not formats: an annotation of a document in html should apply to the pdf, epub, etc
  • annotating dynamic content: content changes on the Web, and annotations need to be able to survive that (Memento, InternetArchive could help here)
  • persistent reference: for annotation Cool URIs is not enough. The Web isn't cool enough.
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metasj commented Apr 10, 2013

Don't forget:

  • bidirectional targeting of annotations (two bodies which link to one another generally link from one point/section of the source to one point/section of the target)
  • handling dynamic and layered annotation: notes change, or can apply to other notes

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