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Frederick Zarndt edited this page Apr 30, 2018
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This repository contains ALTO schema versions - drafts and final released ones.
All open issues and discussions about changes to the ALTO standard can be found and tracked in the issues repository
Latest official schema version: Version 4.0. Primary source. Alternate source.
Summary of changes
- Changed schema version to 4.0
- Changed namespace and targetNamespace to http://www.loc.gov/standards/alto/ns-v4#
- Clarification and definition of the licensing to common standard "CC BY-SA 4.0" for this ALTO standard (with agreement of the authors)
- Added character based text description with new Glyph element and its subelement Variant (GlyphType, VariantType)
- Extended annotation for clarification of the difference of existing element ALTERNATIVE and Glyph/Variant
- Introduced generic "Processing" and deprecate "OcrProcessing"
- Introduce generic "processingStep" with "ProcessingStepType" and required attribute "ID" and deprecate "preProcessingStep", "ocrProcessingStep", "postProcessingStep"
- Add common vocabulary for "processingStep" comprising the "ContentGeneration", "ContentModification", "PreOperation", "PostOperation", "Other"
- Fix for the element Shape. The Shape element can now only be used once within a PageSpace or a TextLine as it was intended.
Details about the changes of the version and further documentation can be found in the repository documentation