[annotator-dev] NLP Interchange Format (NIF)

Sun May 6 19:10:55 UTC 2012

Hi all,
please have a short look at:
http://svn.aksw.org/papers/2012/WWW_NIF/nif_public_draft2.pdf

I am currently developing this format within LOD2 and it might be 
suitable as an exchange format for annotations on the web as well.
It uses a different way to locate text in a document, however, because 
it is targeted towards strings/text in general, not only (x) html.

I had a look at the annotator code and it seems as if you are building 
your Annotations on XPATH. Is this correct?
I have some students, who will develop a highlighting tool (server side) 
also, which takes NIF as input and uses session hashes, so collaboration 
might be possible. I think the least you should do is to provide an RDF 
Vocabulary for your annotations and a converter, that converts your JSON 
to RDF and vice versa. The RDF Vocab could be compatible with NIF. I 
made a *very* rough draft here: 
http://nlp2rdf.lod2.eu/tutorial/swp12-9/display.php

Is the AnnotateIt tools based on sessions, such as Google Docs? i.e. can 
you send around a link with a private hash, so other people can edit there?
( see 
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KFS1rsKfwlXPQxebi-7dckx-_3P2AQUVc6wuDmB0Lrw/edit 
)

All the best,
Sebastian

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Dipl. Inf. Sebastian Hellmann
Department of Computer Science, University of Leipzig
Projects: http://nlp2rdf.org , http://dbpedia.org
Homepage: http://bis.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/SebastianHellmann
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