[RNLD] Current best practices of presenting ELAN based annotations online

[Nick Thieberger]

Hi Meikal,

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.

Nick

On 29 February 2016 at 22:03, Meikal Mumin <meikal.mumin at uni-koeln.de>
wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I've been looking to show online some annotations in the ELAN format of
> (for now audio only) files 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:
>
>
>    - CuPED ('Customizable Presentation of ELAN Documents')
>
> http://sweet.artsrn.ualberta.ca/cdcox/cuped/
> 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.
>
>
>
>    - wavesurfer.js
>
> http://wavesurfer-js.org/
> 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...
>
>
>
>    - Ethnographic E-Research Online Presentation System (EOPAS)
>
> http://www.eopas.org/
> 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
>
>
>
>    - http://ideophone.org/subtitles-in-elan-and-beyond/
>
> 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 more importantly, subtitles are simple and cannot show
> aligned multi-layered annotations.
>
>
>
>    - Languages Archive Cologne & Cologne Language Archive Services
>    (CLASS)
>
> https://lac.uni-koeln.de/de/ & http://class.uni-koeln.de/webapp/
>
> 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.
> https://lac.uni-koeln.de/de/node/MPI6927/#, as well as
> http://class.uni-koeln.de/webapp/elan_player/). 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. I contacted the developers
> anyhow but haven't received a reply as of yet.
>
>
> 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.
>
> But maybe readers of this list know of further solutions or work-arounds
> for the described issues.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Meikal
> --
> Meikal Mumin, M.A.
>
> http://www.afrikanistik.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/mumin.html
>
> Institute for African Studies and Egyptology
> Section African Studies
> University of Cologne
> Germany
>
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