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Gdocs annotation app
Google docs now has the ability to create an app for the gdocs app store. That app could have access to events and data that would make it possible to annotate google docs which are currently dark to the h. app. (No selection events passed thru?)
@Mitar said this on the annotator dev-list:
Maybe this is already known, but I just today found that Google has Google Drive API which allows apps to interact with files in Google Drive (and Google Docs). What is interesting that they provide also API for comments on files:
https://developers.google.com/drive/v2/reference/comments
See guide:
https://developers.google.com/drive/web/manage-comments
Interesting part is how they define anchors. They provide the following anchor types:
- rect - A rectangle in a two dimensional image.
- page - A page number in a pdf or tiff or other document with pages.
- time - A duration of time in a video or other document with a time dimension
- txt - A range of text
- line - A specific line in a text file or any files with lines in it.
- matrix - A location in a matrix-like structure.
It seems all their anchors are quite fragile, but the reason seems that they always apply only to a particular version of the file. If file changes, they modify anchors accordingly as well.
Did not find a way to insert a comment with an anchor, just to read existing ones done inside Google Docs.
But Google also provides Google Docs addons:
https://developers.google.com/apps-script/guides/docs
So maybe Annotator could be packed as a Google Docs addon and provide annotations made outside Google Docs on the same document also inside. Maybe that would be of more interest to Hypothes.is.
Maybe this should be done along the same ideas as OpenKnowledgeButton, one Google Docs app which would integrate multiple projects which work with annotation and extraction of knowledge using annotation.
