It is now possible to upload annotations to a Web Annotation server that is compliant with the W3C Web Annotation data model and protocol (currently based on Elucidate Server). This can become another way of sharing your annotations with other researchers using ELAN or any other tool supporting the web annotation format and protocol. Once analysis and presentation tools become available for collections in a Web Annotation server, this features provides alternative ways of exploring your data. The format of this export is similar to the file based export to WebAnnotation JSON
To export annotations to the Annotation Server go to File > Annotation Server > Export Annotations to Server. The following window appears:
Tiers that are exported to the Annotation Server are stored as
AnnotationCollection
's and are given a collection ID by the server. ELAN
stores the mapping of tier name to collection id in a local database, per annotation
document. With an ELAN document open, it is possible to see a listing of previously
exported tiers by choosing File > Annotation Server > List Collection
IDs from Server. A window appears showing the mapping:
Each tier can occur multiple times in the table, if it has been exported more
than once. The collection ID and the creation date and time should be different in
that
case. The collection ID is a unique identifier which eventually will be one of the
properties that can be used to retrieve the web annotations from the Annotation
Server.