Annotations in the Wild.
Laurent Denoue, Laurence Vignollet · 2002
Abstract. We believe that storing web annotations on annotation servers limits the widespread adoption of web annotation technology. Instead of relying on annotation servers, we propose to encode annotations as an extended URL. Because they follow the standard URL encoding, these extended URLs can be readily used and embedded in Web documents. We then envision specific search engines that would be able to index these extended URLs and provide interesting new services. 1