Re: [LD4LT] annotations on the web: quick survey

Dear all,

as a follow-up to this email and a number of online and offline
discussions, I had since then, it seems both NIF and WA remain to be
popular for their respective users -- and demanded by them. At the same
time, they are only partially compatible with each other or with other
vocabularies to represent linguistic annotations on the web of data --
resp., they provide different levels of expressiveness (a deficit of WA,
less so [but also considerable] for NIF) and different capabilities (e.g.,
to annotate to structured content, a pro of WA).

This effectively leads to fragmentation rather than synergies between
annotation solutions developed in NLP (more NIF-affine), BioNLP (more
WA-affine) and Digital Humanities (more WA-affine), I wanted to organize a
brainstorming session for their prospective harmonization. In case your
interested to contribute, please get back to me via email, and if there are
more than, say, 5 parties involved (be it from LD4LT or from other
background), I set up a Doodle to coordinate a joint call. In fact, if a
concrete vocabulary emerges out of this discussions, this would be a nice
outcome of the CG.

Best regards, and a happy new year,
Christian

Am Fr., 12. Juli 2019 um 08:15 Uhr schrieb Georg Rehm <georg.rehm@dfki.de>:

> Hi Christian,
>
> we’ve been using NIF in a number of projects and have also looked into
> transforming NIF into WA (first prototypes built).
>
> Our experience is that NIF is easier to apply and to work with than WA due
> to WA’s complexity.
>
> Best wishes,
> Georg
>
>
> On 12 Jul 2019, at 07:57, Christian Chiarcos <christian.chiarcos@web.de>
> wrote:
>
>
> So in the future, one user can upload a NIF dataset to the bus, then
> another user can upload a mapper NIF-WebAnnotations to the bus and then the
> client can convert it for everybody.
>
> Thank you, Sebastian. So, effectively, you'd envision to have them both
> co-existing, but driven by user demand, resp. contribution. I guess there
> won't be anything from stopping a user to upload WA data, and another user
> from uploading a mapper WA-NIF annotations. Nice. So, back to my question
> (to all): How much are these vocabularies effectively used?
>
> Best,
> Christian
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