[JDEV] jabber/im application idea

[Jan Peter Hecking]

On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 09:38:49AM -0500, Nigel Kerr wrote:
> i've always wanted something i'll loosely call "annotations on the
> web", a means by which i and other users can create annotations for
> different URLs, and be able to share these annotations amongst
> ourselves.  there have been a variety of different approaches to this,
> but i haven't yet encountered one that was satisfying: they almost all
> usually necessarily involve a central annotations storage server for
> all the annotations made by that system, and some kind of helper
> application or applet, maybe even actual page re-writing.  this has
> always struck me as too heavy weight, and dependent on remote services
> for storage as well as communication.

I haven't got time to go into detail right now but I've thought about
this myself for some time now. I'd suggest that you take a look at the
Annotea system at http://www.w3.org/2001/Annotea/ if you don't know that
yet. It's a LEAD (Live Early Adoption and Demonstration) project of the
W3C to "[enhance] the W3C  collaboration environment with shared
annotations." It's based on RDF and other W3C standards obviously and is
part of the Semantic Web activity. I almost started to write an
implementation that uses the Jabber network instead of HTTP requests to
fetch annotations from an Annotea server but then didn't get around to
actually do it after all.

Feel free to mail me off the list but I can't promise I will answer
promptly right now as I'm busy finishing my master thesis which is due
soon and don't have much time to spare.

bye,
Jan

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Jan Peter Hecking                     jhecking at netgaroo.com
University of Rostock        Department of Computer Science
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