Seminars

CTML: a mark up language for annotating and linking documents on the web

Speaker: Graziella Tonfoni
Visiting Research Professor at The School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
The George Washington University
tonfoni@seas.gwu.edu

Date:
October 1, 1999
Attendance: 20

  CTML (Context Transport Mark up Language, Tonfoni, 1998 and 1999 ) is an annotation system meant to enhance content and context visibility in documentation. It is a derivative language of CPP-TRS (Communicative Positioning Program Text Representation Systems, Tonfoni 1996 ), which is a visual language based upon a consistent set of dynamic visuals , which may be used combinations as to represent the kind of information, which is contained in each paragraph of a certain text.

Information made available on the web is not necessarily easily accessible and may not be connected with other web-bourne information. CTML is meant to make context attachment possible at a very high level of precision and detail, by making qualitative reasoning about the nature of information displayed within a web designed document possible.

Documents enhanced by the CTML system will provide users a set of important interpretive clues, which would not be visible otherwise, therefore allowing in depth understanding of each document to occur. Documents designed according to the CTML standard may be also effectively retrieved, accessed, updated and distributed in a variety of versions.