[OLPC library] Annotations, revisited

[Walter Bender]

On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 11:23 AM, Samuel Klein <meta.sj at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 11:14 AM, Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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?
>
> The use case that seems interesting to the widest range of people is
>  - to make comments [on a book] that will be shared with others in
> your {class, reading group, network}

This already works as part of the Read activity, AFAIK.

>  - to have a global namespace for comments/annotations/reviews
> allowing searching for such annotations made by other people

That is not something we do yet. Is there a good exemplar to look at?

>  - for the above to be integrated simply into the normal process of
> discovering, opening and reading a book
>

I am not sure how to integrate the global namespace into the normal
process if connectivity is not universal. We really need to be careful
re how global network access is tied to Sugar activities as it breaks
things for children in many places: Peru, Nepal, etc. The "cloud" is
not a practical reality yet in many (most) of our deployments.

-walter
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Walter Bender
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