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* Need a shared addressing scheme that works across archives, archive browsers | * Need a shared addressing scheme that works across archives, archive browsers | ||
** Based on permalinks | ** Based on permalinks? | ||
** Definite goal: to place links. Ability to send reader to the source material | |||
** Optional goal: simple API. Ability to load source material by forming an address. (This places more requirements on the nature of the archive of the respective source material.) | |||
* Alternatively: need a method of translating between different addressing schemes | * Alternatively: need a method of translating between different addressing schemes | ||
** Start with a review of link structures of a wide spectrum of archives | ** Start with a review of link structures of a wide spectrum of archives | ||
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* The primary reading mode is in context: items are always presented within a timeline | * The primary reading mode is in context: items are always presented within a timeline | ||
** Want to show documents leading up to and succeeding the highlighted documents | ** Want to show documents leading up to and succeeding the highlighted documents | ||
* As a consequence, an address is a tuple of a) a document ID or | * As a consequence, an address is a tuple of a) a document ID or pair of document IDs (start, end) and b) a visual offset that anchors the start of the reading position | ||
* This is mostly an artefact of timeline presentation within a browser | * This is mostly an artefact of timeline presentation within a browser | ||
** Want to anchor reading position at the first highlighted document. The reader can then scroll up to get context | ** Want to anchor reading position at the first highlighted document. The reader can then scroll up to get context | ||
