Annotation Glossary

annotation

a Web object (i.e. an object with a URI) about which there exist some [RDF] statements using an annotation vocabulary. The annotation vocabulary will typically describe a relationship between the annotation and one or more other Web resources to which the annotation is attached.

annotation service

a URI for an HTTP service that supports reading and writing of chunks of RDF. A single HTTP server (e.g. http://www.w3.org:80/) may support multiple annotation servers, each with its own branch of the URI space; e.g. http://www.w3.org/Team/Annotation/ is logically a distinct annotation service from http://www.w3.org/Member/Annotation/