I was intruiged to find this idea has come around again, and from W3C, no
less! This may provide a way for freedom of speech online to be guaranteed
(but then again, maybe only another source of SPAM or advertising...
:(
Any Linkers have comments?
Annotea Project - Overview <http://www.w3.org/2001/Annotea/>
Annotea is a LEAD (Live Early Adoption and Demonstration) project enhancing
the W3C collaboration environment with shared annotations. By annotations
we mean comments, notes, explanations, or other types of external remarks
that can be attached to any Web document or a selected part of the document
without actually needing to touch the document. When the user gets the
document he or she can also load the annotations attached to it from a
selected annotation server or several servers and see what his peer group
thinks.
Annotea is open; it uses and helps to advance W3C standards when possible.
For instance, we use an RDF based annotation schema for describing
annotations as metadata and XPointer for locating the annotations in the
annotated document.
Annotea is part of the Semantic Web efforts. The annotations are stored in
annotation servers as metadata and presented to the user by a client
capable of understanding this metadata and capable of interacting with an
annotation server with the HTTP service protocol.
Cheers
Jeff
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