Annotation system

## Contents

* 1 Introduction
* 2 Annotation systems in education
* 3 Links
* 4 Bibliography

## Introduction[edit | edit source]

There exist many kinds of annotation systems and therefore the term is quite ambiguous and context dependent. A general definition was given by Cousins et al. (2000):

Definition of annotation: An annotation is a commentary on an object that:

* the annotator intends to be separable from the object itself
* the reader interprets to be separable from the object itself

(Cousins, Baldonado and Paepcke, 2000).

Wikipedia defines an annotation as "a marked-up comment made to information in a book, document, online record, video, software code or other information.", retrieved 18:22, 2 July 2009 (UTC).

## Annotation systems in education[edit | edit source]

Used in education, annotation system can refer to a variety of technologies, e.g.:

* text annotation systems (e.g. online word processors and web page annotation systems).
* Anchored forums
* On-screen annotation (annotate a screen that is on display)
* Annotations of bibliographic entries or web pages, e.g. as in social bookmarking tools.
* Tagging of various artifacts (articles, images, videos, genomes, etc.)
* Adding controlled vocabulary to various artifacts (e.g. metadata
* Note taking tools like Zotero that allow a a reader to add personal notes to a text or a web page
* Educational classroom tools like Freestyler or Classroom Presenter, that allow participants to annotate slides, learner-built models and other artifacts.
* Tools to annotate formal descriptions (e.g. genomes, visualizations, etc.)

## Links[edit | edit source]

* Annotation (Wikipedia)

## Bibliography[edit | edit source]

* Cousins, Steve B.; Michelle Baldonado and Andreas Paepcke (2000). A Systems View of Annotations, Technical Report P9910022, Xerox PARC, PDF \- PDF