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On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 10:32 AM, Rosalyn Metz <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > I'm going to throw in my two cents. > > I dont think (and correct me if i'm wrong) we have mentioned once what > a user might actually put in a twitter annotation. a book title? an > article title? a link? I think the idea is these would be machine generated from an application. So, imagine LT, Amazon, Delicious Library or SFX having a "Tweet this!" button and *that* provides the annotation (not the user). > > i think creating some super complicated thing for a twitter annotation > dooms it to failure. after all, its twitter...make it short and > sweet. > Indeed, it's limited. > also the 1.0 document for OpenURL isn't really that bad (yes I have > read it). a good portion of it is a chart with the different metadata > elements. also open url could conceivably refer to an animal and then > link to a bunch of resources on that animal, but no one has done that. > i don't think that's a problem with OpenURL i think thats a problem > with the metadata sent by vendors to link resolvers and librarians > lack of creativity (yes i did make a ridiculous generalization that > was not intended to offend anyone but inevitably it will). having > been a vendor who has worked with openurl, i know that the informaiton > databases send seriously effects (affects?) what you can actually do > in a link resolver. > No, this is the mythical promise of 1.0, but delivery is, frankly, much more complicated than that. It is impractical to expect an OpenURL link resolver to make sense of any old thing you throw at it and return sensible results. This is the point of the community profiles, to narrow the infinite possibilities a bit. None of our current profiles would support the scenario you speak of and I would be surprised if such a service were to be devised, that it would be built on OpenURL. I think it's very easy to underestimate how complicated it is to actually build something using OpenURL since in the abstract it seems like a very logical solution to any problem. -Ross. > > > > > On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 10:23 AM, Tim Spalding <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >> Can we just hold a vote or something? >> >> I'm happy to do whatever the community here wants and will actually >> use. I want to do something that will be usable by others. I also >> favor something dead simple, so it will be implemented. If we don't >> reach some sort of conclusion, this is an interesting waste of time. I >> propose only people engaged in doing something along these lines get >> to vote? >> >> Tim >> >