Micro-annotation

Quick meaning: Micro-annotation is a noun meaning Annotation of a small subset of an image, document, corpus, piece of music, etc.

Meaning

Annotation of a small subset of an image, document, corpus, piece of music, etc.

Example Sentences

Two strategies have been used to obtain accurate annotations: corporeal annotation and micro-annotation.

A "micro-annotation” that says “my grandmother lived here from 1910–1987” participates in a “writerly” project of memory that the participatory architecture of Web 2.0 applications has made possible.

Moreover, users of Hypermedia Berlin are able to add micro-annotations by geo-tagging points, lines, and polygons, such as Motzstrasse 48 in the year 2003, or the northwest corner of Leipzigerstrasse and Wilhelmstrasse from 1920 to 1945.

It is composed of three tiers: an annotation client that deals with micro-annotations (i.e. within-file annotations), a collection tagger, which deals with macro-annotations (i.e. across-files annotations), and a collaborative annotation subsystem, which manages large-scale annotation tasks that can be shared among different research centres.

Word Forms

• micro-annotations

Related Dictionary Tools