Future of Open Bookmarks

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Hello all -

First - thanks to everyone who's contributed. Open Bookmarks is
changing a bit, but I wanted to first of all thank everyone who's
chipped in or contributed thus far.

After a few months of discussion, it's become obvious that developing
a standard, while worthy, is not what the social reading space needs.
What it does need, however, is a set of basic principles, that
readers, publishers and developers can all understand, and the latter
can implement in the way they feel is best.

As a result, the focus of OB is changing to produce a single document
- perhaps, eventually, a single webpage - which will serve as a
manifesto for social reading. The principles remain the same; the
deliverable changes.

This is good: Open Bookmarks is and has always been an experiment; an
idea in search of a form, in constant refinement.

The first thing is to shut the Wiki - it's still there at
wiki.openbookmarks.org, because other people have contributed to it,
and there's useful stuff there - but it's now read-only and won't be
added to. More to come soon on the blog and here, but I want list
members to know about this first.

Thanks again to all who contributed thus far, and I hope you'll
continue to respond and comment on this list, if you feel moved.

James

[Henrik Berggren]

Hey,

cool stuff. I think this is a step in the right direction. There was too much overlap in what Hadrien and the others are doing with the Epub spec. as well as existing standards for doing similar things.

What's the most pragmatic approach to creating such a manifesto? Should it be single points or more talkative?

Cheers,
Henrik
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I'm currently thinking in terms of single points: a series of pledges,
essentially. "My ereader will do / allow this." "My application will
support this" and so on.

James

[Marc Köhlbrugge (*openmargin)]

What about this:

http://www.email-standards.org/

But for eReaders instead of email clients,

and bookmark/annotation/etc openness instead of HTML/CSS-compatibility.

e.g. a manifesto/pledges + list of popular ereaders with their state + list of all ereaders that are fully 'open'

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That's a great example, thanks - I didn't know about email-standards.
I'll have a poke at it.

On Mar 4, 3:36 pm, Marc Köhlbrugge (*openmargin) <m...@openmargin.com>
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