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+"""Elasticsearch indexing rules for UserAnnotations"""
+
+from html import unescape
+from django_elasticsearch_dsl import Document, fields
+from django_elasticsearch_dsl.registries import registry
+from django.utils.html import strip_tags
+
+from apps.readux.models import UserAnnotation
+from apps.iiif.manifests.documents import stemmer
+
+@registry.register_document
+class UserAnnotationDocument(Document):
+    """Elasticsearch Document class for Readux UserAnnotation"""
+
+    # fields to map explicitly in Elasticsearch
+    canvas_index = fields.IntegerField()
+    canvas_pid = fields.KeywordField()
+    content = fields.TextField(analyzer=stemmer)
+    manifest_pid = fields.KeywordField()
+    owner_username = fields.KeywordField()
+    pid = fields.KeywordField()
+
+    class Index:
+        """Settings for Elasticsearch"""
+
+        name = "annotations"
+
+    class Django:
+        """Settings for automatically pulling data from Django"""
+
+        model = UserAnnotation
+
+    def prepare_content(self, instance):
+        """Strip HTML tags from content"""
+        return unescape(strip_tags(instance.content))
+
+    def prepare_canvas_index(self, instance):
+        return instance.canvas.position
+    
+    def prepare_canvas_pid(self, instance):
+        return instance.canvas.pid
+
+    def prepare_manifest_pid(self, instance):
+        return instance.canvas.manifest.pid
+
+    def prepare_owner_username(self, instance):
+        return instance.owner.username