19 Oct
2009
19 Oct
'09
11:16 a.m.
On Oct 16, 2009, at 10:49 PM, Niels Mayer wrote:
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 1:03 PM, Anca Luca
<ancapaula.luca(a)xwiki.com> wrote:
Hi Niels,
thank you for your email. I'll try to answer and to clarify things.
* the backing annotation storage is based on
components, currently
with an
XWiki
objects implementation but a different service can be easily
created (there
is
one implemented for Scribo annotations stored in RDF)
Where is the source for the xwiki-based annotation
storage? Is this
it?
http://hg.nuxeo.org/sandbox/scribo/file/a9c5293ae8b3/scribo-xwiki-documents…
some other part of
http://hg.nuxeo.org/sandbox/scribo/summary ?
I saw that Anca has already replied to you so I will not repeat what
she said.
The repository you mentioned is what we called "the scribo framework"
that will be used/integrated into XWiki's annotation framework which
is currently in a development phase.
What you will find in those repos is not really XWiki specific but it
is the foundation for building an integration with XWiki (and also
with other products that are developed by the partners of the Scribo
project).
Just to be clearer, Scribo is a research project and currently
consists of a "cloud" of heterogeneous and independent technologies
developed by several partners, among them several research
institutions and industrial partners (including XWiki). You can the
links to these technology on this page:
http://www.scribo.ws/xwiki/bin/view/Main/Development
The project is still in its "initial phases", we are almost at month
10 of 24. We already have some usable stuff but we expect to have
something more usable at the beginning of 2010.
XWiki's annotation feature will come in a little bit faster :)
Today, however, a vast unexplored chunk of content and
"intelligence" (and
it's dialectic, stupidity) out there is in audio and video form. For
that,
semantic-audio technologies on which I base my work come in very
handy,
e.g. http://www.omras2.org/ . Is scribo intending to focus any
effort on
semantic tagging audio and video content? Given the shared platform,
Xwiki,
perhaps there's room for collaboration?
As you already read from Sebastian's blog, Scribo's main focus is
about NLP but we also have a workpackage whose focus is about "image
dematerialization". In particular it aims at isolating interesting
parts of an image (for example the text in a complex picture) or
recognizing its structure and assigning "meaning" to the components.
Think, for example, to an invoice. It has several areas: the company
address, the product list, the recipient of the invoice, etc.
In developing Scribo we are trying to reuse open source frameworks and
build on them. In particular we are using UIMA as the integration
layer. So in principle a technology based on audio/video recognition
could be integrated but this is out of the scope of the Scribo project.
Concerning XWiki, we have different use cases to implement for the
Scribo project and we also have different requirements coming from
other sources. The annotation component will try to provide a "common
ground" for integrating all those requirements easily (where Scribo
will be just one of those integrations)
I hope that this answer your mail, feel free to ask other question.
Thanks again for your input.
Regards,
Fabio