TG2- Storage of Annotations

[ArthurChapman]

Holger Dettki (Swedish Species Information) brought up the issue at TDWG2018 about how the annotations will be stored. With the data? or in an Annotation database to which the databases link. He suggested that this could work better with the "Annotations to Annotations" etc.

[mjcollin]

The current (internal only, constructed for ePANNDA) implementation in iDigBio is that annotations are stuffed in a db table along side the data tables in a PostgreSQL jsonb column. We will always have to have a local copy of any annotations for performance reasons whether we generated them or someone else did.

We're open to a global annotation store as a concept.

[ArthurChapman]

Discussion at TDWG2018 on how annotations may be returned and used by custodians and aggregators. We have the issue of users and others making annotations doing it following the same Annotation format. In addition - it essential that the annotations include a source. Without looking at it, I presume that is included.