Thing > Annotation > Region
| Definition | An annotation over a region in primary data where primary data can be a text, an image, an audio stream or a video streem. Typically one of the sub types of this will be used. |
| URI | http://mmif.clams.ai/0.2.1/vocabulary/Region |
Metadata
| Property | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| unit | String | The unit used to determine boundaries. For text regions this is typically *offsets* to indicate character offsets, for images this is could be *pixels*, and for audio or video streams *seconds*, *milliseconds*, *timestamps* or *frames*. |
Metadata from Annotation
| Property | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| document | ID | The identifier of the document that the annotation is over. This has to be defined either at the metadata level, in which case it has scope over all annotations of the same type in a view, or at the instance level, in which it has scope over just the single annotation. |
Properties
Properties from Annotation
| Property | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| document | ID | The identifier of the document that the annotation is over. |
Properties from Thing
| Property | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| id | ID | A unique identifier for the annotation or document. Uniqueness is relative to the view the annotation is in or the list of documents at the top level of a MMIF file. [Required] |