This schema proposes a description format for the output of text annotation tools. It is based on the format used in the EDITOR tools being developed at the Huygens Instituut but meant to be tool independent. 0.1 Contains information about the annotation set. Contains information about the editions being annotated by this set. Contains information about the anotation types in the annotation set. Contains information about the annotations. Each annotation corresponds to a single annotation element. Annotations need an identifying attribute as it should be possible to point to them from other annotations. Refers to the edition using its url attribute. Refers to the annotation type that types this annotation. At present, a simple xpath tree expression, eg. /TEI.2[1]/text[1]/group[1]/text[6]. Starting point of the annotation. Starts from zero. Zero if annotation is on full element. The offset is an offset within the text nodes of the element identified by the startsAtPath attribute, and does not consider text nodes at lower levels. At present, a simple xpath tree expression, eg. /TEI.2[1]/text[1]/group[1]/text[6]. End point of the annotation. Starts from zero. -1 if annotation is on full element. For debugging, optimisation or other purposes, the annotation creation tool may provide (a fragment of) the annotated text. Annotations can consist of multiple fields. Refers to the field that types this annotation field, defined at the annotation type level. Value of the annotation field. Annotations use this url to refer to the edition. May be used to check the integrity of the edition. [Needs extra info about algorithm used?] Used to give a brief description of the edition, friendly to the human eye. Suggested content: author, short title, year. Probably an email address of the set author. Program used to create the annotations. Program version used to create the annotations. License that applies to this annotation set. Can be used either to describe the background and thinking behing the creation of the annotation set or to refer to an explanation elsewhere, possible in a scholarly article in a repository. Paragraphs of plain text Suggests color series to be used in displaying this annotation set. Use by annotations to refer to annotation type. Should be unique within annotation set. Boolean value that determines whther the 'selected text' value of the annotation (see selectedTextDetermined attribute) can be modified by the researcher. Boolean value that determines whether the annotation creation application will store (a fragment of) the selected text. Annotation types may be assigned their own identifying color for consistent display. Boolean value that suggests whether or not to highlight the annotated text fragment on display of the annotations. Typically false for an annotation type that is applied to larger textual units. When highlighting the annotated fragment is done by the value of one of its category fields, the highlightFieldRef attribute determines the default field to be used for that purpose. Defines a field within an annotation type. Used to refer to the type field from the annotation fields that it describes. Must be unique within the annotation type. Need not be unique within the annotation set. Data type of the field. Values: category (set of values), text (string), memo (multi-line text), URL and annotation (reference to another annotation by its id). Category Text URL Memo Annotation The values used for fields of type category are stored at the type level. They may be assigned a label, a description and an identifying color. Description of an annotation set, type, field or value. Used as a brief label in presentations of annotation types, fields or default values.