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Weston Ruter wrote:
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cite="mid:fb8299e11001241816ka3d2247w7d415e45d7e171d5@mail.gmail.com"
type="cite">FYI, here's something TEI says about Stand-off Markup:<br>
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class="gmail_quote">It has been noted that stand-off markup has
several advantages over embedded annotations. In particular, it is
possible to produce annotations of a text even when the source document
is read-only. Furthermore, annotation files can be distributed without
distributing the source text. Further advantages mentioned in the
literature are that discontinuous segments of text can be combined in a
single annotation, that independent parallel coders can produce
independent annotations, and that different annotation files can
contain different layers of information. Lastly, it has also been noted
that this approach is elegant.
<p><span id="d31e158401"> </span>But there are also several
drawbacks. First, new stand-off annotated layers require a separate
interpretation, and the layers — although separate — depend on each
other. Moreover, although all of the information of the multiple
hierarchies is included, the information may be difficult to access
using generic methods.</p>
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I like this in many ways. But effectively, having layers which depend
on one another would mean that if the source text changed (esp. if it's
not under our control), the stand-off markup becomes totally confused.
It might be a huge-job to reconstruct it???<br>
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Robert.<br>
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