Displaying annotations for intended target

[jptmoore]

Manifest URLs: https://miiifystore.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/iiif/annotest.json

Hi. When I view annotations and the annotation target does not match the canvas being displayed the annotation is still shown. Here is a simple example where the 2nd annotation is shown despite not having a matching canvas/target to display on: https://projectmirador.org/embed/?iiif-content=https://miiifystore.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/iiif/annotest.json

[cbeer]

Thanks for the report, and the test case object. I had a look at the IIIF spec and I feel like there's some ambiguity about whether a canvases annotations can target other canvases:

The motivation of the Annotations must not be painting, and the target of the Annotations must include this resource or part of it.
https://iiif.io/api/presentation/3.0/#annotations

but later on, this seems reduced to a SHOULD (perhaps allowing canvas annotations to target contained content resources?):

All of the Annotations in the Annotation Page should have the Canvas as their target
https://iiif.io/api/presentation/3.0/#55-annotation-page

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I think we also need some clarification about how to handle canvas annotations that target other canvases. Do we simply filter them out (because they are given in error, I guess?), or does mirador need to aggregate all the annotations in a IIIF presentation manifest (whether specified in the hierarchy for this canvas or elsewhere) to collect matching manifest, or some other behavior?

Can you share any real-world manifests with this behavior to help determine the appropriate user experience?

[jptmoore]

Hi.

I think it makes sense that if you are applying annotations to a particular canvas those annotations would have the same target. What I am not sure how to handle is when the annotation page is retrieved from an annotation server where the annotations belong to a container that is not specific to a canvas. It is at another level of abstraction. For example, a container of cats containing multiple annotations with different targets like this: https://miiify.rocks/annotations/cats
This would require filtering on the target to avoid showing all annotations about cats on a single canvas. I wonder if there is another way to handle this in the manifest?