Export all project documents with custom layer annotations in one go

[Eduard Barbu]

Hi,

I have created a project with a custom layer akin to Named Entity one with overlapping annotation. My task :

1. Upload many documents in the project and assign annotators to the project (Done)
2. After they annotate, let’s say 1000 documents, I want to export all document annotations. I have tried WebAnno TSV 3.3, and it seems that it correctly exports one document in the sense that I see the overlapping annotations and the tags seem to be correct. If you can suggest a more appropriate format, let me know, please.
3. Question: How I export all 1000 documents annotated with the custom layers in one go (not one by one, which is very time-consuming). What is the recommended export format? 

Thanks!

Eduard

[Ute Winchenbach]

Hi Eduard,

you can export all documents by exporting the project from the Settings page. For this, go to the Settings page -> Export and choose the format (e.g. WebAnno TSV) and click on export the whole project. This will export your project as a zip file. After unzipping it, the annotation files can be found in annotation folder for each document and annotator.

As for the preferred format, Webanno TSV and UIMA CAS XMI both support all kinds of custom layers. The tsv format is more human readable and the xmi format is especially useful if you want to do further processing of the files e.g. with Python and the dkpro-cassis library [1] which handles this format quite easily.

Best,

Ute

[1] https://github.com/dkpro/dkpro-cassis