I'm partial to the "Principle of Least Power" in the Axioms of Web Architecture document cited in the bibliography. (The language there better captures the thought and presents it more convincingly, in my opinion.)
Shortcut: https://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/Principles.html#PLP
Further explored in: https://codesandbox.io/s/nostalgic-wildflower-tdunh?file=/index.js
We want a world where you give someone something because you would like them to have it, not because you are looking to get something out of them
although there are concerns about the complexity of the Web creating barriers to entry for new implementations
See: Gemini
European course registry for digital humanities: https://dh-registry.de.dariah.eu/
custom elements allow values to describe the location of marginalia at the page level, and specific in-page level
ALTO?
The resultant metadata schema is one that could be adapted for use by any DH project documenting handwritten or printed marginalia, an innovation that is rooted in metadata in combination with humanities scholarship.
Open Annotation?
create a custom schema capable of documenting this wide variety of materials
Reminds me of Robots Reading Vogue, in which one experiment Fabricspace tried to cluster terms describing fabrics.
For a related paper see http://arxiv.org/abs/1411.6341