tilgovi
commented
10 years ago I see at least three separate issues.
- Discover and offer to navigate to archived copies of pages
- Push archive requests to an archiving service
- Show information about orphaned annotations, possibly including information about the time they were last updated and whether an archived copy of the document from that time might exist
Could you please close this and re-open separate issues which clearly articulate these needs in the form of user stories?
hvdsomp
davidar
If a page changes enough that annotations are no longer able to be attached, access an archived version of the page from a popular service (e.g. archive.org) to see the original context together with the orphaned annotation.
When anchors cannot be reattached to the original source, they become orphaned. We should request that annotated pages are archived, or leverage such archives that are automatically maintained for a given site-- such as through a local Memento service. When annotations become orphaned, it should be possible to request the view of the page as annotated from an available service, and reanchor the annotation there.
Recently, @hvdsomp and @shepazu have discussed implementing a Memento service for specifications at the W3C. The Memento service would wrap the existing version history syntax of W3C specifications. An overview of what that service might involve, and what might be expected of an annotation service that was coordinated with it, is available here: https://www.w3.org/wiki/Infrastructure/Memento
@hvdsomp has indicated an interest in assisting us with the relevant pieces of a hypothes.is implementation of this.