HomeLife" ANNOTATOR="JPN" EMAIL="jpn@neu.edu" DESCRIPTION="Labels for activities that occurred at home on the afternoon of Jan, 25, 2011" METHOD="Video" NOTES="Only the participant was at home at the time. Received a phone call and requested audio be deleted between 13:30 and 13:42"> The following properties may be defined: DATASET: A short name of the protocol to be used in the visualization software ANNOTATOR: Identification of the person who performed the annotation EMAIL: Annotator’s contact information DESCRIPTION: A clear, concise description of the protocol/annotation set METHOD: Indication of how the annotation was done. Options are direct_observation_paper: start/stop times were written down on paper as activities were performed direct_observation_mobile start/stop times were entered directly into a computer using custom annotation software in real-time video: annotations were coded from a video recording audio: annotations were coded from an audio recording NOTES. Any special notes should be included here. In particular, a full description of how the intensity values (if used) were determined should be included here. The main content of the the annotation.xml file comprises time-stamped label data. Each ANNOTATION node can be assigned a Globally Unique Identifier (GUID) to allow synchronization between multiple annotators. The LABEL node can also be assigned a Globally Unique Identifier (GUID) which allows lookup in a database of labels to find the specific definition of the label in use at the time this document was generated searching for an item The START_DT and STOP_DT date-time nodes receive values in the form [YEAR]-[MO]-[DY] [HR]:[MI]:[SE].[MSe]. 2011-01-25 11:42:54.396 2011-01-25 11:43:02.396 The RATINGS NODES are optional timestamps used to allow annotators to express how certain they feel the observed label represented the activity they observed. The SETNAME and GUID can be used to map meaningful labels onto ratings values. A METARATING is also available for applications where a second rating values is desired, such as intensity. A final PROPERTIES node contains tracking information about the annotation, such as the annotation set of origin and the time of creation/modification An example AnnotationData file can be found here: annotation.xml. Although activity labels are experiment-specific, researchers would be encouraged to reuse the annotation schema of others whenever possible in order to facilitate data sharing. Examples from prior experiments would be featured on the data sharing website.