New layer type for documents?

wjt commented

2015-07-08 11:37:16 +00:00

It might be useful to add a new layer type, "document", which would work similarly to how the "entity" layer type works. For example, if part of an item shows somebody signing a letter, and there's a PDF/scan/photo of the letter as a document, you could add an annotation referencing the document at that part of the item.

You can already attach documents to an entire item, but not with a time range. I guess you could fake this by just having a "text" layer and adding <a href='/documents/ABCD'>...</a> links; or, define an entity for the document, associate the document with the entity, and then tag the entity. A bit indirect but it would work. What do you think?

It might be useful to add a new layer type, "document", which would work similarly to how the "entity" layer type works. For example, if part of an item shows somebody signing a letter, and there's a PDF/scan/photo of the letter as a document, you could add an annotation referencing the document at that part of the item. You can already attach documents to an entire item, but not with a time range. I guess you could fake this by just having a "text" layer and adding `<a href='/documents/ABCD'>...</a>` links; or, define an entity for the document, associate the document with the entity, and then tag the entity. A bit indirect but it would work. What do you think?

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wjt commented

2016-02-02 13:51:36 +00:00

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Okay, I'm just defining entities for each document (or group of documents – in practice there is often more than one document grouped together) and using an entity layer.

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New layer type for documents? #2816