The abstract model that captures the fundamental properties of syntactic annotation schemes provides a conceptual tool for assessing the coherence and consistency of existing schemes and those being developed.
tools for editing annotations in the abstract format, which automatically generate virtual AML from Data Category and Dialect Specifications, are already under development in the context of work on the terminological Markup Language, and a tool for automatically generating RDF specifications for user-specified data categories has already been developed in the SALt project.