Annotating

We investigate the idea of adding links to Wikipedia articles, either to red links of plain text.

The annotations should follow a standard format, the collected data should match.

Selectors in Web Annotation Data Model

Xpath

{
  "@context": "http://www.w3.org/ns/anno.jsonld",
  "id": "http://example.org/anno22",
  "type": "Annotation",
  "body": "http://example.org/note1",
  "target": {
    "source": "http://example.org/page1.html",
    "selector": {
      "type": "XPathSelector",
      "value": "/html/body/p[2]/table/tr[2]/td[3]/span"
    }
  }
}

CSS selector

{
  "@context": "http://www.w3.org/ns/anno.jsonld",
  "id": "http://example.org/anno21",
  "type": "Annotation",
  "body": "http://example.org/note1",
  "target": {
    "source": "http://example.org/page1.html",
    "selector": {
      "type": "CssSelector",
      "value": "#elemid > .elemclass + p"
    }
  }
}

Text Quote Selector

{
  "@context": "http://www.w3.org/ns/anno.jsonld",
  "id": "http://example.org/anno23",
  "type": "Annotation",
  "body": "http://example.org/comment1",
  "target": {
    "source": "http://example.org/page1",
    "selector": {
      "type": "TextQuoteSelector",
      "exact": "anotation",
      "prefix": "this is an ",
      "suffix": " that has some"
    }
  }
}

TextPositionSelector

{
  "@context": "http://www.w3.org/ns/anno.jsonld",
  "id": "http://example.org/anno24",
  "type": "Annotation",
  "body": "http://example.org/review1",
  "target": {
    "source": "http://example.org/ebook1",
    "selector": {
      "type": "TextPositionSelector",
      "start": 412,
      "end": 795
    }
  }
}