<div dir="ltr">Hi Meikal,<div><br></div><div>Just to let you know that there is a new version of EOPAS in development that will play files from an archive rather than requiring a new installation of a server-based system. The current EOPAS does allow 'private' items that are not displayed to anyone but the logged in user/depositor. But I hope our new system will be out later this year. It will play Elan files that have a transcript and translation, or else interlinear files (from Toolbox or Flex) in a prescribed format.</div><div><br></div><div>Nick</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 29 February 2016 at 22:03, Meikal Mumin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:meikal.mumin@uni-koeln.de" target="_blank">meikal.mumin@uni-koeln.de</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px">Hi everyone,</span><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px">I've been looking to show <span style="font-size:12.8px">online some annotations </span><span style="font-size:12.8px">in the ELAN format </span><span style="font-size:12.8px">of (for now audio only) files </span><span style="font-size:12.8px">to select people, and I've been wondering what is currently the preferred way of doing that using a web browser. I found the following solutions, but maybe you could add to it, and provide some feedback if you have made use of those solutions or if you are aware of further methods:</span></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px"><ul><li style="margin-left:15px">CuPED ('Customizable Presentation of ELAN Documents') <br></li></ul></div><blockquote style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px;margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div><a href="http://sweet.artsrn.ualberta.ca/cdcox/cuped/" target="_blank">http://sweet.artsrn.ualberta.ca/cdcox/cuped/</a></div><div>The application seems to be work, but the clickable elements do not work in my browsers, and units are not correctly aligned, where the ELAN file has split up glossings into two tiers (A_morph-gls-en & A_morph-glsAppend-en - default export behaviour of FLEX for variant forms, such as portmanteau morphemes). Judging from the changelog, this might not be developed anymore - I contacted the developers anyhow but haven't received a reply as of yet.</div></blockquote><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px"><ul><li style="margin-left:15px">wavesurfer.js<br></li></ul></div><blockquote style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px;margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div><a href="http://wavesurfer-js.org/" target="_blank">http://wavesurfer-js.org/</a></div><div>Seems the most modern solution, without the need for plugins, but I was unable to find the documentation regarding the ELAN API (It was developed by a Russian team of researchers, and their website is in Russian, which I don't understand), and I would have to manually write some Javascript and HTML...</div></blockquote><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px"><br></div><ul style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px"><li style="margin-left:15px">Ethnographic E-Research Online Presentation System (EOPAS)<br></li></ul><blockquote style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px;margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><a href="http://www.eopas.org/" target="_blank">http://www.eopas.org/</a><div>From the first look, this seems to force users to submit files under a CC license or as public domain, but for now I would like to just present things to select individuals, without committing to a particular license</div></blockquote><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px"><ul><li style="margin-left:15px"><a href="http://ideophone.org/subtitles-in-elan-and-beyond/" target="_blank">http://ideophone.org/subtitles-in-elan-and-beyond/</a><br></li></ul></div><blockquote style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px;margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px">In 2009, Mark Dingemanse blogged about creating subtitles from ELAN annotations. ELAN seems to have such capabilities out of the box by now, however this requires plugins for display in a browser or a download of files. AFAIK and m<span style="font-size:12.8px">ore importantly, subtitles are simple and cannot show aligned multi-layered annotations.</span></blockquote><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px"><ul><li style="margin-left:15px">Languages Archive Cologne & Cologne Language Archive Services (CLASS) <br></li></ul></div><blockquote style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px;margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div><a href="https://lac.uni-koeln.de/de/" target="_blank">https://lac.uni-koeln.de/de/</a> & <a href="http://class.uni-koeln.de/webapp/" target="_blank">http://class.uni-koeln.de/webapp/</a></div><div><br></div><div>Accidentally, a different research unit of my own university seems to be in the process of developing a language archive, which features some kind of waveform rendering of .eaf files based on wavesurfer.js (e.g. <a href="https://lac.uni-koeln.de/de/node/MPI6927/#" target="_blank">https://lac.uni-koeln.de/de/node/MPI6927/#</a>, as well as <a href="http://class.uni-koeln.de/webapp/elan_player/" target="_blank">http://class.uni-koeln.de/webapp/elan_player/</a>). However, in the case of LAC this seems to be restricted to materials deposited with them, and a quick test shows it is less reliable and the interface less simple than e.g. CuPED or the wavesurfer.js demo. Meanwhile CLASS seems to access data stored in the browser, with no possibility to share such presentations, plus I couldn't really figure out all elements of the interface (which probably means that other users won't get it either). Regarding LAC, without having tested the system, I don't know about any obligations regarding access right and accessibility. <span style="font-size:12.8px">I contacted the developers anyhow but haven't received a reply as of yet.</span></div></blockquote><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px">So those are the solutions I could find. CuPED still seems to be the simplest way, but it is not fully compatible with modern browsers, and has occasional problems. wavesurfer.js and solutions based on that seem to be the future, but for now there seems to be no simple way of using them without writing HTML & Javascript.</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px">But maybe readers of this list know of further solutions or work-arounds for the described issues.</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px">Best wishes,</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px"><br>Meikal<div dir="ltr"><div>--<br></div><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Meikal Mumin, M.A.<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.afrikanistik.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/mumin.html" target="_blank">http://www.afrikanistik.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/mumin.html</a><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div>Institute for African Studies and Egyptology</div><div dir="ltr">Section African Studies<br>University of Cologne<br>Germany</div></div></div></div></div></div>
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