Annotation

Annotation means "note", " insert ", " addition ". In this sense annotations with keywords, definitions of terms or detailed texts are in the nature of the statement or supplement.

Annotations hold things which, although they are not considered relevant for the main keyword or main text, but represent important additional information. They are the least worthy to be explicitly stated, and in this way obtain the designated content a place in the order of the whole, without disturbing the structure or to interrupt the sense line of the statement.

Linguistics

In linguistics, it comes with annotations for descriptive or analytical notes that are related to " rohsprachliches " data.

". The child is playing in the garden " Consider, for example, the sentence would an annotation for this are as follows: " The ( Annotation: definite article, neuter, singular, nominative ) Child ( Annotation: noun, neuter, singular, nominative ) plays ( annotation: finite verb, present tense, 3rd person singular, indicative, basic form of play ) in ( annotation: preposition ) the ( annotation: definite article, masculine, singular, dative ) garden ( annotation: Noun, masculine, singular, dative ). "

Computer science

Programming

In software development, annotations are used to embed metadata into the source code of a program. These have no direct impact on the translation of the source text, but offer additional opportunities compared to simple comments.

Semantic annotations

The Semantic Web requires semantic annotations, eg by means of RDF in Web pages. So can be made interpretable content that would otherwise be understood only by people, even for machines. A similar procedure applies to the vision of the Semantic Grid, where Grid services are semantically annotated, eg with the OWL -S ontology.

See also: microformat

Biology

In genetics and bioinformatics annotation refers to a functional mapping that can originate both from experimental data and from a computer -based prediction. Thus, the annotation of a DNA sequence describes, inter alia, the exact location of exons and introns, protein-coding regions of the encoded protein, including, promoter elements, repetitive DNA elements in this sequence.

The large sequence databases included in each entry in addition to pure sequence information annotation. The scope can surpass the the annotated sequence several times.

Librarianship

In librarianship an annotation refers to a short and objective summary of a work. Another term for annotation is in the library jargon "Subtitle". Annotations are useful in library catalogs for the user to judge the relevance of the individual hits in a search.