Annotate.js (coffeescript)

Introduction

Annotate.js is the frontend widget for entity recognition back-end engines like Stanbol.

Features

• Text-Enhancement support
• Spell-checker - like interaction with annotation enhancements
• Write RDFa into your content
• Independent of any editor
• One-line integration
• Configurable Enhancement types

Options

• 'vie': VIE instance to use. Default is a simple VIE instance with Stanbol service configured to connect http://dev.iks-project.eu:8080 which is the actual demo stable launcher.
• 'vieServices': defines which services to use for the annotation. Default ['stanbol']
• 'autoAnalyze': fire analyze on initialization
• 'showTooltip': (don't) show a preview tooltip when mouseovering an already annotated word.
• 'typeFilter': Annotation Type(s) to filter for. Default empty. Example: ["http://dbpedia.org/ontology/Place", "http://dbpedia.org/ontology/Organisation", "http://dbpedia.org/ontology/Person"]
• 'debug': Shows console messages about what's happening
• 'ns': map of relevant namespaces. Default is DBpedia and SKOS namespace definitions.
• 'fallbackLanguage':

Methods

• 'enable' gets enhancements from backend and visualizes them on the analized dom element.
• 'disable' hides all the text enhancements that are not accepted by the user.
• 'acceptAll' goes through all text enhancements and accepts the best candidate automatically.

Events

• 'success': finished loading annotations
• 'error': error loading annotations
• 'select': User selected an annotation
• 'decline': User declined a suggestion
• 'remove': User removed a previously selected annotation

Goals

• Provide Text enhancement directly in your content

• Provide another open source (MIT license), flexibly usable, easy to integrate tool for (semi-)automatic and manual semantic enhancement.

• A tool that's fun to integrate

    var stanbolConnector = new StanbolConnector();
    $('#content').annotate({
        connector: stanbolConnector
    });
  

Future features

• Manual annotation - loosely coupled wysiwyg-editor enhancement?, needs selection-support
• Connection to VIE - loosely coupled, easy integration
• Clean up decoupling from the stanbol backend - schema mapping
• Entity preview using client-side templating
• Edit relationships

Dependencies

• jQuery 1.5
• jQuery UI 1.9m5
• Backbone.js
• a wysiwyg-editor with save() (here: hallo editor)
• VIE, VIE^2 (optional)

Development guide

The widget development is done in CoffeeScript. Use the following command to automatically compile the script in the background whenever it's edited:

$ cake watch