---------------------------- The Callisto Annotation Tool ---------------------------- Copyright (c) 2002-2004 The MITRE Corporation Version 1.1.1 September 16, 2004 Overview -------- Callisto is an annotation tool developed for linguistic annotation of textual data. Any Unicode-supported language can be annotated, and files encoded as UTF-8 and several other character encodings are accepted. Callisto stores annotations in a stand-off format using the ATLAS data model, and can support importing/exporting of inline annotation such as XML or SGML. The initial development of Callisto by the MITRE Corporation was funded by the U. S. government. - Release Contents - Requirements - Installation - Support - Documentation - Acknowledgements Release Contents ---------------- Callisto is distributed as in installer program, available at http://callisto.mitre.org/. By default, the installer will create a "Callisto" directory where programs on your operating system normally go. You may also change this. If you are using Windows, a "Callisto" program group will be created in the "Start->Programs" menu. The directory structure looks like this. Callisto/ (aka $CALLISTO_HOME) bin/ data/ (sample data) docs/ Documentation.txt (detailed installation and use) [files with licenses] lib/ (third party libraries dom4j.jar jATLAS.jar junit.jar log4j.jar tasks/ (annotation task plugins) Callisto.jar INSTALL.txt LICENSE.txt (Callisto license) README.txt (this File) Uninstaller/ Requirements ------------ Callisto is implemented in Java, requiring Java version 1.4 or later, obtainable from Sun Microsystems at http://java.sun.com/. Other required libraries are included with the distribution of Callisto, as mentioned in the Acknowledgements. Installation ------------ 1. Install java 2 Runtime Environment version 1.4 or later. Note that java is already installed in many systems. For Sun Solaris, Linux, Mac OsX, Cygwin (on Windows) and other "Unix-like" systems, two quick tests to check on the installed java (if any) that you will access are: * To find where in the file system the java (if any) that you will be using is, run "which java" on a command line. * Running "java -version" on a command line will get you the version (if any) that you are accessing. One way to check in Windows (2000, XP): a. Mouse on "Start" -> "Settings" -> "Control Panel" b. Select "Add or Remove Programs". This will list the installed programs. c. You are looking for "Java 2 Runtime Environment, SE x.y.z", where "x.y.z" gives the version number. d. Close the "Control Panel" and "Add or Remove Programs" windows. 2. Double click the callisto--installer.jar icon to start the installer. You can also start the installer from the command line with the command: $ > java -jar callisto-v.v.v-installer.jar 3. To run Callisto: 1. Windows 95, 98, ME, 2000, XP The installer should create icons in your Start Menu. Look for "Start->Programs->Callisto" group, and select the Callisto icon. You may also have chosen to put an icon on your desktop. In addition, you can click on the Callisto.jar file itself. 2. Sun Solaris, Linux, MacOSX:: At a shell prompt, cd into the $CALLISTO_HOME directory (where the installer placed Callisto). Then run java, invoking the Callisto application, like this: $ java -jar Callisto.jar The installer currently cannot create icons on these systems. On MacOSX, you can click on the Callisto.jar file itself. Note that running on MacOSX is known to have problems. For more information on installing Task plugins refer to the user documentation in $CALLISTO_HOME/docs/Documentation.txt Support ------- Mailing lists, documentation, FAQs, and other information is available at http://callisto.mitre.org/. Please join the mailing lists to recieve announcements and discuss issues with Callisto. For direct questions on how your group can support further enhancements of Callisto, contact David Day: Dr. David Day day@mitre.org 781-271-2854 The MITRE Corporation M/S K309 202 Burlington Road, Bedford, MA 01730-1420 A mailing list has been created for Callisto users to interact. You may sign up to recieve messages at http://callisto.mitre.org Callisto Users Bug reports and technical questions can be sent directly to the , or any of the main developers: Callisto Developers Documentation ------------- The Callisto license can be found in the file LICENSE.txt. Installation instructions can be found in the file INSTALL.txt Detailed installation installation instructions and a user manual can be found in the $CALLISTO_HOME/doc/Documentaion.txt Acknowledgements ---------------- The primary development team for Callisto consisted of Chad McHenry, Robyn Kozierok, and Laurel Riek, with contributions from David Day. Design and interface guidance was provided by Lisa Ferro, Janet Hitzeman, Marcia Lazo, Marc Vilain and David Day. The project leader for this effort was David Day. ATLAS was created by NIST (http://www.nist.gov/speech/atlas), MITRE (http://www.mitre.org), and the LDC (http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/) and jATLAS was originally developed by NIST: jATLAS: http://sourceforge.net/projects/jatlas/ The following copyrighted works make up portions of Callisto: dom4j: copyright MetaStuff, Ltd. (http://dom4j.org/) log4j: copyright The Apache Software Foundation (http://www.apache.org/)