Potentially Modeling Reviews as Commenting Annotations

[markpbaggett]

Hello,

I realize this might be a somewhat controversial suggestion, but I wanted to raise it for consideration in the case that its never come up.

Items in the Internet Archive often include user reviews, which could be modeled as commenting annotations and displayed within a IIIF viewer. This approach would allow users to see and engage with comments made on an item externally.

The Internet Archive provides these reviews through its metadata API. For example:

{
      "reviewbody": "These where the types of stories my Grandmother would recite to me as a child. Simple and good read for the children.\n\nGood bedtime story.",
      "reviewtitle": "Typical Turn of the Century story.",
      "reviewer": "TallpailofH20",
      "reviewdate": "2007-04-21 04:10:46",
      "createdate": "2007-04-21 04:10:46",
      "stars": "4"
    },

[glenrobson]

Commenting annotation on the manifest. Note iiif-prezi3 doesn't currently support extra annotation features like created and creator.

annotations would sit on the Manifest which may not be supported in viewers yet.

Potentially do as a linked annotation page.