What is Annotation

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The term annotation refers to any extra information included within a document that denotes or references a particular point being made by the author(s) in an argument. Typically, annotations are placed in the margins of a printed book page, and can be added by either readers or the original authors. For this reason, they often mark a point of necessary discussion between readers and writers on a specific topic. Digital media formats continue to develop better methods of including annotations online or on mobile devices. Learn more in: Reading and Collaboration: Developing Digital Reading Practices With Computer-Assisted Text Analysis Tools

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Annotation is extra information for document or piece of information. It is usually generated by readers of original information, reflecting the use (understanding, interpreting, commenting, etc.) of original information. Annotations are affiliated to original information, but not vice versa. Learn more in: Introducing Digital Case Library

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Extra information or note associated with a particular object. Learn more in: Context-Aware Capture and Sharing of Mobile Videos

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(see Markup) Learn more in: Sharing Corpus Resources in Language Learning

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A comment or words of explanation that are added to a body of text. Learn more in: Google Docs Motivates Creative Inspiration and Constructive Interaction

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The activity of briefly describing or explaining information. It can also involve summarising or evaluating content. Learn more in: A Comparative Study on E-Note-Taking

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Additions to a digital object, such as marginal notes containing reactions, commentary, analysis, or links to related work. Learn more in: E-Tagging in Context: Information Management across Community Networks

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Descriptive text attached to multimedia objects. Learn more in: Multimedia Representation

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Marking up text to add highlights and individual comments, connections, and questions. Learn more in: Use of Apps and Devices for Fostering Mobile Learning of Literacy Practices

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Comment, explanation or presentational markup attached to text, image, or other data and used to add information about the desired visual presentation, or machine-readable semantic information. Learn more in: Searching Semantic Data Warehouses

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“A remark attached to a particular portion of a document, and covers a broad range in literature… Web annotation is crucial for providing not only human-readable remarks, but also machine-understandable descriptions, and has a number of applications such as discovery, qualification, and adaptation of Web documents” (Hori, Ono, Abe, & Koyanagi, 2004, p. 2). Learn more in: Comparing Approaches to Web Accessibility Assessment

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An annotation is extra information that is associated with some data, usually a document or website. Common uses of annotation are keywords associated to images that aid retrieval or comments about the quality of (parts of) the document in question. An annotation is normally added after the creation of a document and mostly created by other people than the initial author. The verb 'to annotate' refers to the process of adding an annotation to some document. An annotation is a special kind of meta-data, distinguished by the property of mostly being added later; however, the difference between annotation and meta-data is not clear cut. Learn more in: Social Semantic Bookmarking with SOBOLEO

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A technique for content adaptation; special tags are added onto the HTML page to allow browser to operate in a pre-defined function. Learn more in: E-Learning Systems Content Adaptation Frameworks and Techniques

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The addition of new information to a source text, commonly associated with book marginalia, text highlights, and written notation. Learn more in: The Marginal Syllabus: Educator Learning and Web Annotation Across Sociopolitical Texts and Contexts

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Supplementary information attached to other information; examples are symbols, labels, or graphical overlays on maps. Learn more in: Hypervideo

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Annotation is the act of adding some descriptive extra information (e.g. in the form of metadata) to an artifact that becomes annotated. Learn more in: Supporting Semantic Verification of Process Models

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A form of writing that has been placed on paper or an electronic document by the user of that resource. It is the outcome of attentive reading of a text and is a visible trace of human attention. These annotations make a statement about the document, or some part of it at a certain point in time. Learn more in: Using Annotations for Information Sharing in a Networked Community

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Enables users to mark text, link information elements mutually, couple information elements to communication entries, and supplement information with comments or notes. Learn more in: Ubiquitous Access to Adaptive Hypermedia