Thing > Annotation > Region > Interval > Span
| Definition | An annotation over a region in primary text data. A Span may be defined by pointing directly into primary data (by using start and end offsets) or by linking to one or more other Annotations with the targets property. |
| URI | http://mmif.clams.ai/0.4.0/vocabulary/Span |
Metadata
Metadata from Region
| Property | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| timeUnit | String | Specifies which unit of time the measurement is based. Can be *seconds* or *milliseconds*, or in case of annotations on a VideoDocument, *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 Interval
| Property | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| start | Integer | The starting offset in the primary data. This point is inclusive. For time intervals, the unit is determined by the *timeUnit* metadata key. For text intervals, the unit is Unicode code point. |
| end | Integer | The ending offset in the primary data. This point is exclusive. For time intervals, the unit is determined by the *timeUnit* metadata key. For text intervals, the unit is Unicode code point. |
| targets | List of IDs | IDs of a sequence of annotations covering the region of primary data referred to by this annotation. Used as an alternative to *start* and *end* to point to component annotations (for example a token sequence) rather than directly into primary data, or to link two or more annotations (for example in a coreference annotation). |
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] |