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** What kinds of annotations do we want to make? (Information structure) | ** What kinds of annotations do we want to make? (Information structure) | ||
** How can we make that easy? (Tools) | ** How can we make that easy? (Tools) | ||
** Can we identify good conventions and techniques for the above that are more generally applicable? | ** Can we identify good conventions and techniques for the above that are more generally applicable? (Patterns of use) | ||
* Finally, can we think of these functions as a layer on top of mere archives, and construct them as a physically separate service? | * Finally, can we think of these functions as a layer on top of mere archives, and construct them as a physically separate service? | ||
Revision as of 15:49, 18 December 2010
Problem Statement
We're seeing an increase in the publication of vast corpuses of data logs, often in the form of message archives, usually in a structured message format. They're all quite overwhelming: how to make sense of such a vast amount of text? How to identify sections that are relevant?
- Can we allow large number of interested parties (anyone really) to annotate these documents?
- What kinds of annotations do we want to make? (Information structure)
- How can we make that easy? (Tools)
- Can we identify good conventions and techniques for the above that are more generally applicable? (Patterns of use)
- Finally, can we think of these functions as a layer on top of mere archives, and construct them as a physically separate service?
Exemplary Publications
- WikiLeaks datalog dumps
- Iraq War Logs
- Embassy Cables
- http://spacelog.org/
- http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1958292 "I would love to get an in-depth technical explanation of the requests and procedures -- how all this stuff works and insights into the troubleshooting process."
- etc
Observations
- What constitutes an "interesting" section of a document is a matter of perspective.
- Thus, such annotations become more useful if they're linked to a context (e.g. "this cable relates to news story X")
- Many parties will already build browsers for such publications, with varying ways of navigating such content.
- We don't need to duplicate those efforts, but we should integrate with them.
- ...
Requirements
- Need a shared addressing scheme that works across document browsers
- Based on permalinks
- we can translate between different approaches
- Need ways to link/group individual messages
- Need ways to identify level of "interestingness" (e.g. voting, cf. Q&A sites)
- Need ways to annotate content (with text, links)
- Contribution should be possible anonymously
- ...
Links
- http://booktwo.org/notebook/openbookmarks/ check these sites for bookmark/annotation conventions
- http://www.openbookmarks.org/ (focused on ebooks)
