Not very surprising to see this idea has come around again.
The concept of adding third party comments / enhancements / whatever to
other web pages is one of the more significant and valuable developments to
come along in recent years.
What's really surprising is that Third Voice somehow managed to stuff it up,
and not get it fired up successfully. Perhaps they made the mistake of
trying to dot-com it and make billions, rather than understanding the
implications of a concept that enables 'commoners' to enhance the
'definitive' view of an author / creator.
Think back over the history of the provision of information and imagine the
effect if everyone could provide their own additions to that information -
from Gutenberg's bible thru the Constitution of the USA, Dicken's novels,
Mein Kampf, Royal Commission's reports into corruption in Queensland, etc.
It may take some time, but eventually the world will come to grips with the
idea of an author's version being one of the multitude of perspectives
available on a piece of work.
Don't be surprised to see its uptake driven by 'crass commercialism' at some
stage - similar to the way that naughty pictures on the web have been a core
group of e-commerce successes. Think along the lines of Woolworths
annotating the Coles' web site to show as comparison the Woolworths weekly
specials, and you'll start to see the scope.
Or, (since I see Jeff, that you have a gov.au email address) think along the
lines of the ALP adding annotations to Senator Alston's press releases about
Telstra.......
Regards, Mark
Mark Hughes
Effective Business Applications Pty Ltd
effectivebusiness@pplications.com.au
www.pplications.com.au
61 4 1374 3959
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Subject: [LINK] Annotea : Third Voice revisited
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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