annotation

Annotation

Definitions

1. Associations between different pieces of information.¹
2. Extra information associated with a particular point in a document.²

Web Annotation

Definition

Annotations of web documents.

Examples

1. Comments on an Instagram post
2. Amazon reviews
3. Tweets with links

There's a data model for web annotation. The learning platform project in this repository should abide by this model.

Web Annotation Data Model

The model's specification can be found here. This specification "describes a structured model" for annotations to be reused in different platforms. "The specification provides a specific JSON format" to enable creation of annotations easily.

References

1. https://www.w3.org/TR/annotation-model/
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annotation