[OLPC library] Annotations, revisited

[Edward Cherlin]

On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 11:28, Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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?

Finnegans Wiki, at http://www.finnegansweb.com/, is an extreme case,
where nearly every word is annotated extensively.

>>  - 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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