Comments on: ‘Social annotation and the marketplace of ideas’: Time for an IDPF annotation standard for books and other e-pubs! http://www.teleread.org/blog/2007/11/05/social-annotation-and-the-marketplace-of-ideas-time-for-an-idpf-annotation-standard-for-books-and-other-e-pubs/ News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Fri, 25 Jul 2008 16:42:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Joseph Gray http://www.teleread.org/blog/2007/11/05/social-annotation-and-the-marketplace-of-ideas-time-for-an-idpf-annotation-standard-for-books-and-other-e-pubs/#comment-608984 Joseph Gray Wed, 07 Nov 2007 03:24:59 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/?p=7496#comment-608984 After delving into the DTBook specification, I see that annotations and highlighting are covered by that specification: http://www.niso.org/standards/resources/Z39-86-2005.html#Bkmk This is a different method than Adobe is using in Digital Editions. I know that the DTBook schema is included in the epub specification as far as content is concerned, but I'm not sure if this method of handling annotations is also included. Would anyone who knows for sure like to comment? After delving into the DTBook specification, I see that annotations and highlighting are covered by that specification: http://www.niso.org/standards/resources/Z39-86-2005.html#Bkmk

This is a different method than Adobe is using in Digital Editions. I know that the DTBook schema is included in the epub specification as far as content is concerned, but I’m not sure if this method of handling annotations is also included. Would anyone who knows for sure like to comment?

]]> By: Brian Carnell http://www.teleread.org/blog/2007/11/05/social-annotation-and-the-marketplace-of-ideas-time-for-an-idpf-annotation-standard-for-books-and-other-e-pubs/#comment-608458 Brian Carnell Tue, 06 Nov 2007 20:26:39 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/?p=7496#comment-608458 Whatever happened to the annotation schema that the W3C was developing? Whatever happened to the annotation schema that the W3C was developing?

]]> By: Mike Cane http://www.teleread.org/blog/2007/11/05/social-annotation-and-the-marketplace-of-ideas-time-for-an-idpf-annotation-standard-for-books-and-other-e-pubs/#comment-607388 Mike Cane Tue, 06 Nov 2007 00:18:54 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/?p=7496#comment-607388 Poor Ted Nelson. The Net as he originally envisioned it would have had annotations and social markup from the word Go. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodor_Nelson Poor Ted Nelson. The Net as he originally envisioned it would have had annotations and social markup from the word Go.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodor_Nelson

]]> By: Joseph Gray http://www.teleread.org/blog/2007/11/05/social-annotation-and-the-marketplace-of-ideas-time-for-an-idpf-annotation-standard-for-books-and-other-e-pubs/#comment-607147 Joseph Gray Mon, 05 Nov 2007 19:50:10 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/?p=7496#comment-607147 As I mentioned in my recent article, Digital Editions uses an XML file to store bookmark and annotation information. This might be a good basis from which the IDPF could build such capabilities into the epub standard. Using XML would make the information easily available to other e-readers and other programs -- and even share it if you like. Standards like XML are good :-) As I mentioned in my recent article, Digital Editions uses an XML file to store bookmark and annotation information. This might be a good basis from which the IDPF could build such capabilities into the epub standard. Using XML would make the information easily available to other e-readers and other programs — and even share it if you like. Standards like XML are good :-)

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