Comments on: Be My PAL? Call for annotation/linking open standard http://www.teleread.org/blog/2007/12/21/be-my-pal-call-for-annotationlinking-open-standard/ News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Thu, 20 Nov 2008 14:07:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Jon Noring http://www.teleread.org/blog/2007/12/21/be-my-pal-call-for-annotationlinking-open-standard/#comment-667524 Jon Noring Fri, 21 Dec 2007 15:56:16 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/2007/12/21/be-my-pal-call-for-annotationlinking-open-standard/#comment-667524 Dan, thanks for your feedback. As my article notes, I definitely am open to other names. For example, I explored calling each annotation object a "PEA", for "portable extensible annotation". So the repository of PEAs could be called a "pod" if we wanted. <laugh/> Anyway, the request is out to the creativity of the Internet collective to come up with a better name to call this standard and each annotation/linking object. Anyone? Dan, thanks for your feedback.

As my article notes, I definitely am open to other names. For example, I explored calling each annotation object a “PEA”, for “portable extensible annotation”. So the repository of PEAs could be called a “pod” if we wanted. <laugh/>

Anyway, the request is out to the creativity of the Internet collective to come up with a better name to call this standard and each annotation/linking object.

Anyone?

]]> By: Dan Jackson http://www.teleread.org/blog/2007/12/21/be-my-pal-call-for-annotationlinking-open-standard/#comment-667352 Dan Jackson Fri, 21 Dec 2007 12:05:11 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/2007/12/21/be-my-pal-call-for-annotationlinking-open-standard/#comment-667352 Calling it PAL isn't a great idea in my opinion. As well as being the term for the aforementioned European and Australian television standard, it is also used colloquially in order to refer to those markets collectively, especially in the context of the entertainment industry (as in "will this title ever get released in the PAL region"). Calling it PAL isn’t a great idea in my opinion. As well as being the term for the aforementioned European and Australian television standard, it is also used colloquially in order to refer to those markets collectively, especially in the context of the entertainment industry (as in “will this title ever get released in the PAL region”).

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