[OLPC library] Annotations, revisited

Walter Bender walter.bender at gmail.com
Thu Jan 14 11:14:46 EST 2010


On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 10:58 AM, Samuel Klein <meta.sj at gmail.com> wrote:
> Aggregation.

That could mean a lot of things. Could you please be more specific?

thanks.

-walter

> On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 8:31 AM, Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 12:34 AM, Samuel Klein <meta.sj at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I just chatted this afternoon with Andi Gros, who is quite interested
>>> in seeing annotations added to our bookreader's repertoire.  I hope we
>>> can make some progress there, now that we have a growing active
>>> audience of users, who will want more than author and title to figure
>>> out what texts to use for what purposes!
>>
>> We've had support for annotations in our ebook reader for quite some
>> time. Is there something specific you are looking for?
>>
>> -walter
>>
>>>
>>> Starting with something simple like "a global/local-network list of
>>> reviews/notes/comments organized by title" without worrying about
>>> different versions of works or annotations of specific words or
>>> sentences, could be very usable.
>>>
>>> Is anyone actively working on something like this atm?  I also chatted
>>> briefly with the founder of RatePoint, who have been following OLPC
>>> for some time and interested in making global reviews by 'product' or
>>> 'entity' happen with a simple web interface.
>>>
>>> SJ
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>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Walter Bender
>> Sugar Labs
>> http://www.sugarlabs.org
>>
>



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