Annotation of archived pages

[egh]

Share how we're doing it.

[PsypherPunk]

Would something like http://okfnlabs.org/annotator/ be suitable, rather than Wayback per se?

[anjackson]

I've spent some time looking at generic JavaScript annotation frameworks. They seem to offer a nice separation of concerns, allowing the annotation backend to be kept apart from Wayback/whatever. Unfortunately, every single one I've looked at so far provides no way of doing page/resource-level annotations. i.e. you can annotate a sentence, or even part of an image, but you can't annotate the whole page.

[egh]

Adding interested parties from spreadsheet. @kris-sigur

[egh]

Robert Sanderson (@azaroth42) has been working on annotations. http://www.openannotation.org/index.html As a co-creator of the memento spec, perhaps he would be interested in getting somebody to implement this in wayback?

[azaroth42]

I would definitely be interested to promote it as a feature in Wayback :) We're working with the Annotator folks to improve their implementation, especially via http://hypothes.is/ If there are features that are missing, I strongly encourage you to request them on the annotator-dev@okfn.org list, and I'll happily chime in to support them.

[egh]

Thanks, Robert! This hasn't been my thing but I assume some of the other wayback team members have opinions about annotator.

[edsu]

@anjackson I think most javascript enabled annotation systems (including okfn/annotator) rely on a highlight actio to trigger annotation creation. If this is a deal breaker I suspect it could be possible to write a plugin for okfn/annotator to allow for resource level annotations by injecting some kind of button/icon into the page?