# text-fabric

![text-fabric](https://raw.github.com/ETCBC/text-fabric/master/docs/tf.png)

Text-Fabric is a Python3 package for Text plus Annotations.

It provides a data model, a text file format, and a binary format for (ancient) text plus
(linguistic) annotations.

The emphasis of this all is on:

* data processing
* sharing data
* contributing modules

A defining characteristic is that Text-Fabric does not make use of XML or JSON,
but stores text as a bunch of features.
These features are interpreted against a *graph* of nodes and edges, which make up the
abstract fabric of the text.

[Install & Docs](https://github.com/ETCBC/text-fabric/wiki/Home)

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[Motivation](http://www.slideshare.net/dirkroorda/text-fabric)
[Data](https://github.com/ETCBC/text-fabric-data)