Document-level annotator notes (and flags?)

[spyysalo]

Suggestion from user:

The document page could have a free-form notes section for annotation comments,
similar to the notes for individual events (or perhaps the event notes could be shown
as a list below the document). Also, some way of marking progress on the document
(draft, work in progress, final, etc.) could be helpful, depending on how the annotators work.

[spyysalo]

Note that there's some preliminary comments on possible format in static/standoff.html (commented out for now)

[kottmann]

The above use case is an example for a document-level field. We would like to suggest to make this more generic and allow a user to define document level fields. A document level field would be defined by a name and its type. Additionally it might be necessary to allow to assign a default value to it (e.g. annotator name) and to define it as a read-only field.

These fields can be used for multiple purposes, e.g. tracking the annotator name on a document level, showing the detected document language, showing the document type, tracking the annotation status (or progress, as mentioned above), etc.

[kottmann]

In combination with the search feature the document-level fields could be an effective tool to easily get a sub-set of documents which a user needs to work on.

For example:

• An annotation status field could be used to find documents which are not yet annotated.
• A problem field could be set by a custom validation tool, and a user can quickly go through all documents to fix them.
• An annotator who made a mistake over and over again can go back through his work and correct the mistake.

The above use cases can be done without loosing anytime to locate a document.

[kottmann]

Is there a chance to get this feature into the next release?

To train a statistical model on a partial annotated brat corpus it is necessary to distinguish between already fully annotated documents and non or only partial annotated documents.