Glyphicus

Annotation title uniqueness - is it still needed?

Bug #521480 reported by Jefficus
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Bug Description

In the current system, annotation documents are required to be unique. I believe the reasoning was that, with the current design, if you wanted to have the same tag apply to two different spans, you could simply assign the same annotating document to two different spans of text, and it would be done. This forces taggers to keep all annotations of the same type limited to one record, which makes it easy to then do changes to the annotation content. But I don't think we currently support adding additional spans to an existing annotation, nor do we allow multiple spans to be selected when an annotation is created, so in fact, neither system works.

We need to make a decision: do we force single, multi-targetted annotations? Or do we allow for duplicate annotations? Either way, some UI will need to be built to support the decision.

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Yin Liu (yin-liu) wrote :

I can work with either system, so I'm afraid I don't really have an opinion on this one.

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Jefficus (jeff-smithicus) wrote : Re: [Bug 521480] Re: Annotation title uniqueness - is it still needed?

Are you sure you can work either way? Consider what this means for the new
lemma behaviors. If, as we are proposing, lemmas become annotations, then by
allowing duplicate annotation titles, we also permit duplicate lemmas, which
seems non-ideal.

For users like Brent, duplicate comments is a good thing, since
multi-targeting a single comment is way more complicated than just adding
the same comment title over and over, but when the comments get more
structured, we may very well want to enforce uniqueness. Or at least, offer
excellent tools for re-using existing comments where they exist.

This might require further discussion.

On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 10:37 AM, Yin Liu <email address hidden> wrote:

> I can work with either system, so I'm afraid I don't really have an
> opinion on this one.
>
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> Annotation title uniqueness - is it still needed?
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Jeff Smith
Computer Science Dept.
University of Saskatchewan
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