What is the specification for the XML used by ZAS?
The Zoomify Annotation Viewer uses a straightforward XML structure for annotation storage. This structure is tagged in a self-explanatory way, though additional documentation is planned. The Zoomify web site implementation serves as a useful example case. The relevant demos are at: http://www.zoomify.com/enterprise.htm. Two can be found: ‘Medical Annotation’ and ‘Defense Annotation’ – both of which can be viewed in read-only and editable mode. The XML for the sample content in the medical example follows below. Record tags include POI (‘point of interest’) designators. Field tags include x, y, zoom, user, date (date/time), id, and name. Subrecords include Labels and Notes, each with their own field tags, as listed below. Note that direct editing of the annotation XML is never necessary as the Zoomify Annotation Viewer provides a simple means of visual editing. The information in this TechNote is provided primarily to support output of XML in a Zoomify-compatible format from pre-existin
