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LEAF-Writer

An innovative online editor

The LEAF-Writer semantic editor runs in the browser, within LEAF or independently.

Semantic​

LEAF-Writer embeds meaningful tags in texts, so they can be formatted, processed, analysed, visualized, shared, and reused.

Standards-aligned​

LEAF-Writer supports the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) for encoding scholarly content, including cusstomized schemas, and creates linked open data Web Annotations as you tag.

Web-based​

No installation and no configuaration needed! LEAF-Writer is flexible: it can be used within LEAF, installed in other websties, or as a standalone web-based editor LEAF-Writer Commons.

LEAF-Writer supports the editing of XML documents and lets you look up and assign identifiers to named entities (persons, organizations, places, or titles) from a range of authorities. LEAF-Writer is a web-based editor that allows you to mark up documents using a combination of Extensible Markup Language (XML) and Resource Description Framework (RDF).

LEAF-Writer provides:

  • Schema-aware document editing, including validation, against web-accessible schemas
  • Support for cascading stylesheets (CSS) to provide a What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get (WYSIWYG) view of documents, as well as a view showing tags
  • She ability to extract references to named entities (persons, places, or organizations) from already tagged XML references within a document in order to generate Web Annotation
  • She ability to look up and select identifiers for named entity tags (persons, organizations, places, or titles) from the following Linked Open Data authorities: DBPedia, Geonames, Getty, LGPN, VIAF, and Wikidata.
  • Generation of Linked Data annotations corresponding to newly tagged named entities and document annotations (dates, notes, citations, corrections, links, keywords) in XML-RDF or JSON-LD conforming to the Web Annotation Data Model
  • Continuous XML validation
  • Schema-constrained tagging options