Shared Annotations and Comments
hReview Schema
When folks develop collections of resources and/or want to promote collaboration and community around educational resources, there are a number of typical features that get discussed: metadata (there I said it), search and discovery, annotations/comments/ratings, and so on. In this post I’ll talk a little bit about annotations/comments/ratings.
I’ve built and designed educational digital libraries and stand-alone systems that enable users to rate, make comments and otherwise annotate a resource. So have a lot of people. When looking at “interoperability” of collections of resources, folks usually focus first on search and discovery of the resource–this is true of the OpenCourseWare Consortium. After addressing that, then they start to think about the next level–the context of the resource such as the annotations/comments/ratings.
A bit of motivation… At April’s OpenCourseWare Consortium Meeting, Clay Whipkey asked the question (and I’m paraphrasing)…
Is there a standard for sharing annotations and comments?
–Clay Whipkey, Technical Director, OCWC
Ok, that’s as good a place as any to start. So, is there a standard?
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