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Light Application level API (Discussion)

kltm edited this page Sep 15, 2017 · 8 revisions

Participants

Seth Carbon, Jin-Dong Kim

Description

Broadly, we’d like to look at transferring users between curation/annotation web applications in a generalizable and sane way. Stated more specifically, the use case that we wish to look at is how to obtain small packets of specific information from an external resource that has its own associated web application.

Additional context

This is a continuation of work from BH16, BLAH3, and other previous work. Documentation is currently centralized here: https://github.com/kltm/lala , with a brief overview intended for a BOSC 2017 BoF: https://github.com/kltm/lala/blob/master/bosc_2017_lightning/abstract.pdf .

Previous work (invariant)

Goals

  • The sole goal is to further discussion about the best way to do this, using the above (LALA) as a possible starting point.

Afterward

User/authorization transference continues to be an issue in online annotation apps. It seems that some of the use cases of PubAnnotation are somewhat closer to Noctua use cases than previously; there may be more opportunity to work towards a loose affiliation along the lines of LALA (i.e. fruitful talk with Jin-Dong and Seth about what their doing these days and why).