Annotation

A note, summary, or commentary on some section of a book or a statute that is intended to explain or illustrate its meaning.

An annotation serves as a brief summary of the law and the facts of a case and demonstrates how a particular law enacted by Congress or a state legislature is interpreted and applied. Annotations usually follow the text of the statute they interpret in annotated statutes.

ANNOTATION, civil law. The designation of a place of deportation. Dig. 32, 1, 3 or the summoning of an, absentee. Dig. lib. 5.
2. In another sense, annotations were the answers of the prince to questions put to him by private persons respecting some doubtful point of law. See Rescript.

A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States. By John Bouvier. Published 1856.

Mentioned in

References in periodicals archive

On top of the basic annotation system, we implemented the experimental conditions for the two user studies.

Using Freeze Frame and Visual Notifications in an Annotation Drawing Interface for Remote Collaboration

In this work, we set the threshold value as 75%, that is, in all the GO annotations corresponding to the neighbor nodes of a unidentified protein, when a GO annotation satisfies m/n[greater than or equal to]75%, this GO annotation will be added to the unidentified protein.

Reconstruction and Subcellular Localization Analysis of Eriocheir sinensis Molting Protein-Protein Interaction Network

This corpus of annotation data, once siloed on individual web pages or dispersed among different tools, now provides enduring value to the user.

Annotation in the scholar and publisher workflows: Heather Staines investigates data portability and flexible data creation

This study was designed to investigate how representation tool types, designated "visible annotation," enhance the accuracy of shared knowledge and foster the level of constructed knowledge in CSCL environments.

The Effects of Representation Tool (Visible-Annotation) Types to Support Knowledge Building in Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning

Annotation based image retrieval (image tagging) permits users to add meta information to images.

Automatic image annotation and image retrieval in social networks using hadoop

The main contribution of this paper is the presentation and the evaluation of a set of mechanisms providing users with the mentioned support to the collaborative annotation of resources.

An Integrated Support to Collaborative Semantic Annotation

The purpose of this paper is to describe a device-oriented automatic semantic annotation method in IoT, including a series of processes and corresponding algorithms.

Device-Oriented Automatic Semantic Annotation in IoT

YouTube had removed Annotations Editor already in 2017, along with the ability to create new annotations or edit existing ones.

YouTube will stop showing video annotations from next year

"Viewers generally don't love annotations, and on average they close 12 annotations before they click on one of them.

YouTube's annoying annotations will soon be a thing of the past