Open Annotation Data Model: community draft
Shannon Bradshaw, Dan Brickley, Leyla Jael Castro, Tim W. Clark, Timothy W. Cole, Philip Desenne, Anna Gerber, Antoine Isaac, Jacob Jett, Thomas G. Habing, Bernhard Haslhofer, Sebastian Hellmann, Jane Junter, R Leeds, Andrew Magliozzi, Bob Morris, Paul J. Morris, Jacco van Ossenbruggen, Stian Soiland‐Reyes, James Allen Smith · 2013
The Open Annotation Core Data Model specifies an interoperable framework for creating associations between related resources, annotations, using a methodology that conforms to the Architecture of the World Wide Web. Open Annotations can easily be shared between platforms, with sufficient richness of expression to satisfy complex requirements while remaining simple enough to also allow for the most common use cases, such as attaching a piece of text to a single web resource.An Annotation is considered to be a set of connected resources, typically including a body and target, where the body is somehow about the target. The full model supports additional functionality, enabling semantic annotations, embedding content, selecting segments of resources, choosing the appropriate representation of a resource and providing styling hints for consuming clients.n