Sacodeyl Annotator

Synopsis

SACODEYL Annotator offers an easy and intuituve interface which enables annotations over different kind of texts (written, spoken, verse, etcera). The main intention of the tool is be useful annotating texts by users with no previous knowledge over corpora, texts, annotations, etcetera. The tagset used into annotations can also be customized with this tool. Moreover, annotation process can be performed only with drap and drop.

Features

SACODEYL Annotations offers following features:

• Is multi-platform independent (windows, linux, mac)
• Is multi-language with respect of the language used in the interfaces
• Also, really manages multiple language corpora
• Allows a wide variety of encoding formats (ANSI, UTF-8, UTF-16, ASCII, etc)
• Manages multiple texts inside each corpora
• Manages the definition of the tags that can be annotated
• Offers the possibility of extensión of the annotation tags
• Complies with TEI P5 specifications
• Offers the user the posibility to annotate at any level inside the text
• Works with oral and writen text
• Shows selected annotations (offers filtering methods)
• Offers a very friendly interface
• Offers modifications over texts keeping the annotations.
• Allows meta-madata management (title, media, sponsor, publisher, etcetera)
• Manages annotation of external resources into texts (url, link, video, audio, etcetera)

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System requirements

The System need to have installed: Java Runtime Versión 6 (JRE 6) v1.6.0 or higher

Source code and licensing

Is it open-source? Yes, SACODEYL Annotator is Free and Open Source.

what license type? SACODEYL Annotator is released under GPL v3.0 License

Is there any technical support fee? If you want any kind of technical support, contact with Jose Maria Alcaraz, he is the tool developer.

Support for TEI

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Language(s)

What computer language is the tool written in?

SACODEYL Annotator has been written using Java Technologies and JNLP.

What language(s) are used in the interface?

SACODEYL Annotator offers an "extensible" multi-language support.

Actually, SACODEYL Annotator offers the user interface in following languages:

- English - Spanish - Lithuanian - German - French - Italian - Rumanian

But if you are interesting in add a new language only woy need to translate a "internationalization file" and send it to SACODEYL Team and then the new language will be included in the next version of the tool.

What language(s) are used in the documentation?

The documentation of SACODEYL Annotator is presented only in English.

Documentation

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Tech support

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User community

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Sample implementations

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Current version number and date of release

The current versión is: SACODEYL Annotator V2.7 released on 07/01/08

History of versions

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How to download or buy

You can download this tool through this link: Sacodeyl Project

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