Category Archives: Annotation

Existing APIs for Annotations

APIs for Annotations Below some of the API documentation for annotations I’ve found from existing projects. Diigo Diigo’s API documentation is quite straightforward. Here’s a POST request: POST https://secure.diigo.com/api/v2/bookmarks ¬ ?key=your_api_key ¬ &url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.diigo.com ¬ &title=Diigo+-+Web+Highlighter+and+Sticky+Notes ¬ &tags=diigo,bookmark,highlight ¬ &shared=yes And … Continue reading

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Annotation Resources

Below a list of resources regarding annotations (and their management) of textual and media documents. OAC (Open Annotation Collaboration) [Generic Annotation Specification] Link: Open Annotation Collaboration/ Summary: “The overarching goals of this project (consisting of multiple phases) are: (1) To … Continue reading

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URN inside XMP

Introduction The XMP (for: Extensible Metadata Platform) specification developed by Adobe combines  camera/machine created EXIF metadata and human/manually created IPTC metadata for media like images (but also PDFs) into a common container. What are the advantages of XMP? All metadata … Continue reading

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