Language Resource Management -- Morpho-syntactic Annotation Framework (MAF):

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12.1 Formal description

The global maf element is introduced as a root element to encapsulate morpho-syntactic annotations and carries global metadata relative to the annotated documents.

Two MAF specific metadata categories are introduced for the token standoff notation, namely the document and addressing attributes. The addressing attribute indicates the addressing schema used to refer positions in the annotated document. A full list of such schema will be provided in ISO 24612 proposal “Linguistic Annotation Framework” (LAF). The following fragment illustrates the use of these attributes for a video document:

The other non-mandatory metadata are handled following the recommendations of the OLAC Metadata Standard and should therefore be included in an olac:olac element.

<maf
  document="http://abu.cnam.fr/cgi-bin/donner_abu?tdm80j2"
  addressing="char_offset">
<olac xmlns="http://www.language-archives.org/OLAC/1.0/"
   schemaLocation="http://www.language-archives.org/OLAC/1.0/ ">
  <creator xmlns="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">MySuperMorphoTool</creator>
  <created xmlns="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">2005/09/30</created>
  <hasVersion xmlns="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">1.1</hasVersion>
  <identifier xmlns="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">TDM80MAF.1.1</identifier>
  <replaces xmlns="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">TDM80MAF.1.0</replaces>
  <requires xmlns="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">http://abu.cnam.fr/cgi-bin/donner_abu?tdm80j2</requires>
  <language xmlns="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" type="olac:language" code="fr">French</language>
  <publisher xmlns="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">MyInstitution</publisher>
  <title xmlns="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xml:lang="fr">Le Tour du Monde en 80 Jours version
     MAF</title>
  <abstract xmlns="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xml:lang="en"> A set of MAF annotations for Jules Vernes famous novel
  </abstract>
  <rightHolder xmlns="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">MyInstitution</rightHolder>
  <license xmlns="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">LGPL-LR</license>
</olac>

</maf>

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12.1 Formal descriptionISO: Formal description¶

The complete list of addressing schema allowed by MAF will be inherited from ISO 24612 document on Linguistic Annotation Framework (LAF). A possible list of such schema could include:

maf MAF Start element
document (attribute) the url of the annotated document
addressing ( To be defined in LAF. ) (attribute) the addressing mode for referring position into the annoted document

TEI ptrs,
XML Xpointers,
character offsets (depending on the original document encoding)
MPEG7 multimedia addressing (MediaTimePointType)

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document	(attribute) the url of the annotated document
addressing	( To be defined in LAF. ) (attribute) the addressing mode for referring position into the annoted document