Interoperability of text corpus annotations with the semantic web
Karin M. Verspoor, Jin-Dong Kim, Michel J. Dumontier · BMC Proceedings · 2015
Formal annotation of language data is an activity that dates back at least to the classic work of Kucera and Francis on the Brown Corpus [ 1 ]. It further is a general scholarly activity by which scholars organize existing knowledge and facilitate the creation and sharing of new knowledge. Annotation is also becoming increasingly pervasive in the context of social media. Recognition of the widespread importance of annotation has resulted in recent efforts to develop standard data models for annotation [ 2 – 4 ], specifically targeting Web formalisms in order to take advantage of increasing efforts to expose information on the Web, such as through Linked Data initiatives ( http://linkeddata.org ). The WWW Consortium (W3C) has formed the Web Annotation Working Group ( http://www.w3.org/annotation/ ) to develop specifications for a Web annotation architecture.