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Subject: Re: Proposing a path
From: Oliver Sauter <oli@worldbrain.io>
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Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2016 12:14:01 +0100
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> On 30 Nov 2016, at 16:33, Benjamin Young <byoung@bigbluehat.com> =
wrote:
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> Hi friends!
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> It's been quieter here than I (or the board report I need to write by =
the weekend) would like it to be. :)
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> I'd like to propose a path for us to take over the next 6 months to =
get this incubating project on its feet, collaborating, coding, and =
creating content. So. Here goes.
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> First, we build a simple highlighter demo for Grade A Fancy web =
browsers (i.e. the latest and greatest).=20
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> The demo would:
>  - allow selection of text
>  - keep the highlight in localStorage as a Web Annotation Data Model =
document
>  - re-anchor the annotation (if possible) on page reload
I find this to be a good scope to go for - a minimal version that is =
capable of being integrated easily into other projects=20
(not without a self-interest here, I assume that we would implement it =
into the WorldBrain tool in the future)

Question being, how would we store it in local storage? just the simple =
storage as is or also think about a db?
Soon I will publish the datamodel for storing the webpages and their =
content in the PouchDB.
We may also talk about how to integrate one into the other, also as a =
use case for other integrations.

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> We would use these libraries:
> - https://github.com/tilgovi/dom-anchor-text-quote
> - https://github.com/tilgovi/dom-anchor-text-position
> - https://github.com/tilgovi/dom-anchor-fragment
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> The demo would focus on the "drop in" script tag use case.
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> In the end, this would (deliberately) not do very much. :) The point =
being, we need to start somewhere, and this somewhere. ;)
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> The actions beyond this deliberately-dumb-demo include:
> - creating/contributing a Web Extension that uses this code (I have =
one to contribute)
> - creating/contributing a Web Annotation Protocol server that these =
annotations could be published (I've also got code ready to go for =
this...or we could rewrite in JS to keep things consistent)

Is there also other code we can reuse? Specifically UI compontents? =
Since Hypothesis now separated client from backend, we may could use =
their front end code and strip it down?


> - making this a useful enough demo to use across all apache.org =
sites--starting with our own of course
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> So. That's my minimal map. Discuss. ;)
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> Cheers!
> Benjamin
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> --
> http://bigbluehat.com/
> http://linkedin.com/in/benjaminyoung