Stand-off markup - Revision history

Jensopetersen: /* Granularity: addressing elements/tokens vs. addressing (spans of) characters */

2011-11-14T07:49:56Z

‎Granularity: addressing elements/tokens vs. addressing (spans of) characters

Kshawkin: /* Links */ added a URL for "Gate for ANC"

2011-10-15T12:44:16Z

‎Links: added a URL for "Gate for ANC"

Brettz9: fix link

2010-01-18T15:57:17Z

fix link

Piotr Banski: +category

2009-02-01T23:17:17Z

+category

Piotr Banski: User:Piotr Banski/sandbox moved to Stand-off markup: unfinished, but I'm SO very short on time nowadays

2009-02-01T23:16:06Z

User:Piotr Banski/sandbox moved to Stand-off markup: unfinished, but I'm SO very short on time nowadays

Piotr Banski: /* Links */ +1

2009-01-02T13:34:48Z

‎Links: +1

Romary: /* Granularity: addressing elements/tokens vs. addressing (spans of) characters */

2008-12-03T08:00:29Z

‎Granularity: addressing elements/tokens vs. addressing (spans of) characters

Piotr Banski: a quick sketch for now

2008-12-02T00:34:43Z

a quick sketch for now

New page

'''Stand-off markup''' (also known as '''remote markup''' or '''stand-off annotation''') is the kind of markup that resides in a location different from the location of the data being described by it. It is thus the opposite of '''inline markup''', where data and annotations are intermingled within a single location.

== Analogy: annotating binary data ==

In the case of XML describing binary data, such as images or audio/video, this kind of system comes naturally, as it is impossible to store bits of binary files as element content in an XML file — in order for an XML annotation to be able to describe an image of a text or inscription that got scanned or photographed, a certain reference system is required (e.g. with pixels as individual units), together with pointers that create connections between elements in the XML file and areas of the image. Similarly with audio/video data, which you can index by the time axis, byte order, or within other appropriate reference systems.

This kind of annotation system can also be applied to texts: instead of mixing data and markup, the source text can be left as read-only (and thus secure and possibly even located on a remote server) and the markup that describes it can constitute a separate layer, linked to the original by appropriate pointers.

== Advantages ==

* separation of logical layers of annotation
* overlapping hierarchies
* text read-only or secured, annotations free (cf. ANC)
* etc.

== A bit of history ==
* CES, XCES, ANC

* CES image

* mention HyTime and the TEI's contribution to XLink?

* ISO, Ide+Romary (?)

* mention ATLAS (?)

== Current implementations ==

* ANC Tool (to aggregate XCES annotations, could it be customized?)

* mention libxml2 and xmllint as the only (?) '''free-standing''' parser that (almost) implements the entire XPointer framework (bugs + non-W3C schemes are not handled)

* mention TEI schemes defined at http://www.w3.org/2005/04/xpointer-schemes/

* mention, perhaps, the way to use the string-range() function of the xpointer() scheme

== Granularity: addressing elements/tokens vs. addressing (spans of) characters ==

* James's paper
* NKJP/Polish: catching ambiguities at sublexical level

== Links ==
*Documentation
** [http://www.cs.vassar.edu/CES/CES1-5.html#ToCOview CES documentation]
** [http://www.tei-c.org/release/doc/tei-p5-doc/html/SA.html#SASO TEI Guidelines, ch. 16.9]

* Tools that go some way towards creating/handling stand-off markup
** [http://www.cs.unibo.it/projects/xslt%2B%2B/XPointerTest.html XSLT++ Project: XPointer implementation]
** [http://www.huygensinstituut.knaw.nl/projects/editor EDITOR (the Edition as a Digital Instrument for Text-based Open Research)]
** Gate for ANC (not sure how it would handle TEI, separate plug-ins would be needed?)

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 * NKJP/Polish: catching ambiguities at sublexical level
-When one does not want or nee to address stand-off annotation at the sound or character level, an easy way to proceed is to build up a primary resource in TEI format, which is fully segmented at the word level (<w>, with IDs). Annotation files may in turn just refer to the corresponding IDs by means of a simple URL (http://www.myorganisation.org/myCorpus#w3425).
+When one does not want or need to address stand-off annotation at the sound or character level, an easy way to proceed is to build up a primary resource in TEI format, which is fully segmented at the word level (<w>, with IDs). Annotation files may in turn just refer to the corresponding IDs by means of a simple URL (http://www.myorganisation.org/myCorpus#w3425).
 == Links ==

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	* Related papers		* Related papers
	** [http://www.computerphilologie.de/jg06/boot.html A SANE approach to annotation in the digital edition, by Peter Boot, ''Jahrbuch für Computerphilologie'' 8 (2006)]		** [http://www.computerphilologie.de/jg06/boot.html A SANE approach to annotation in the digital edition, by Peter Boot, ''Jahrbuch für Computerphilologie'' 8 (2006)]
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	** [http://www.huygensinstituut.knaw.nl/projects/editor EDITOR (the Edition as a Digital Instrument for Text-based Open Research)]		** [http://www.huygensinstituut.knaw.nl/projects/editor EDITOR (the Edition as a Digital Instrument for Text-based Open Research)]
	** Gate for ANC (not sure how it would handle TEI, separate plug-ins would be needed?)		** Gate for ANC (not sure how it would handle TEI, separate plug-ins would be needed?)
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		+	* Related papers
		+	** [http://www.computerphilologie.de/jg06/boot.html A SANE approach to annotation in the digital edition, by Peter Boot, ''Jahrbuch für Computerphilologie'' 8 (2006)]

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 ** [http://www.cs.unibo.it/projects/xslt%2B%2B/XPointerTest.html XSLT++ Project: XPointer implementation]
 ** [http://www.huygensinstituut.knaw.nl/projects/editor EDITOR (the Edition as a Digital Instrument for Text-based Open Research)]
-** Gate for ANC (not sure how it would handle TEI, separate plug-ins would be needed?)
+** [http://www.anc.org/tools/using-gate.html Gate for ANC] (not sure how it would handle TEI, separate plug-ins would be needed?)
 * Related papers

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 *Documentation
 ** [http://www.cs.vassar.edu/CES/CES1-5.html#ToCOview CES documentation]
-** [http://www.tei-c.org/release/doc/tei-p5-doc/html/SA.html#SASO TEI Guidelines, ch. 16.9]
+** [http://www.tei-c.org/release/doc/tei-p5-doc/en/html/SA.html#SASO TEI Guidelines, ch. 16.9]
 * Tools that go some way towards creating/handling stand-off markup

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