Re: Annotations futures

Nathan Torkington <Nathan.Torkington@vuw.ac.nz>

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Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1993 10:39:49 +1200
From: Nathan Torkington <Nathan.Torkington@vuw.ac.nz>
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Subject: Re:  Annotations futures
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John Danner writes:

> I haven't been following this discussion at all, but using
> character-offsets seems like a pretty weak mechanism for marking
> annotation positions when you have the SGML structure of a document
> lying around.

Fair enough.  Instead of character-position offsets, do you mean
	fourth H1
	third H2
	second para

Is that enough detail for the annotation?

> Our experience on Oracle Book, a commercial hypertext system, is
> that except for electronic review situations, authors will not take
> responsibility for repositioning annotations.

This sounds reasonable.  I think this means the annotations (as
stored) should have an md-5 digital signature of the original document
to enable the client to say ``this is an annotation of an EARLIER
version''.  I don't think full versioning is possible, given the
limitations of the resolution of HTML's semantics.

Nat