STAM: Stand-off Text Annotation Model STAM is a data model for stand-off text annotation. The underlying premise is that any information on a text is represented as an annotation. We define an annotation as any kind of remark, classification/tagging on any particular portion(s) of a text, or on the resource or annotation set as a whole, in which case we can interpret annotations as metadata. Additionally, rather than reference the text directly, annotations may point to other annotations (hig...
