[annodex-dev] Using CMML without Annodex container

[Brad Hards]

G'day, 

I'm interested in whether CMML might lend itself to storyboarding.

As I see it, annodex is focused on the continuous media, and a set of 
annotations (the CMML) which are auxillary to the media. There is some value 
in applying CMML to sequence and annotate  non-continuous media - for 
example, a series of PNG-encoded screenshots with some explanatory text. 
Annodex appears to support this, as "time-instantaneous bitstream", however 
there may be an alternative packaging that makes mores sense in some 
circumstances (eg just a bzipped tarball might be very useful as an 
interchange format during the authoring process, although that has obvious 
disadvantages such as not being able to be delivered as a temporal subset).

I'm starting to see some interesting ideas in useability coming out of the KDE 
community, however moving around very large files (eg an MPEG encoded full 
screen recording) is impractical for some of our developers. I'm thinking 
about CMML as a tool to help collaboration. 

Of course, XHTML can do some of this already, however CMML (with the concept 
of events happening at a particular time) might make for a better viewing 
experience. Typically the rendering for XHTML would be a linear page, with 
alternating text and images. CMML (with or without the annodex stream) might 
be better shown as the image (still or moving) with the appropriate 
annotations shown in a text box, along with some kind of master control. 

Not sure if this makes any sense - appreciate your thoughts on it!

Brad
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