Annotation

• CURIE: gmeow:Annotation
• IRI: https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/Annotation
• Category: class
• Defined by: gmeow:slices/notes
• Box roles: TBox role (What is this?)

A reified binding of a body to a target with a motivation — the W3C Web Annotation idiom expressed as a gufo:Relator. Mediates annotationBody (the note or literal), annotationTarget (the annotated entity), and annotationMotivation (the purpose). A highlight is an Annotation with a target span but no body; a bookmark is an Annotation motivated by bookmarking. Standpoint, confidence, and suppression are carried by the relator's provenance layer (accordingTo, displayable) or by RDF-star annotations on the shortcut.

Structure

Subclass of: gufo:Relator

Practical Pattern

Use gmeow:Annotation as a specialized kind of gufo:Relator. Add statement metadata or a standpoint when the assertion needs provenance, confidence, or vantage.

Example Snippets

These snippets are generated from canonical slice examples and trimmed to the Turtle blocks where this term appears.

Annotations And Notes

• Source: slices/extensions/notes/examples/annotations-and-notes.ttl
• Examples catalog: open in catalog#example-slices-extensions-notes-examples-annotations-and-notes

# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2026 Blackcat Informatics® Inc. <paudley@blackcatinformatics.ca>
# SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-4.0
#
# Worked example: notes and annotations. A gmeow:Note is a first-class
# information object — authored, timestamped, and linked to other notes by
# gmeow:hasWikilink and to entities by gmeow:mentions (the Zettelkasten / linked-
# note pattern). A gmeow:Highlight is the W3C-Web-Annotation shape for pure
# highlighting: a gmeow:annotationTarget, a precise gmeow:annotationTargetSpan
# (a text-quote Selector), and a gmeow:annotationMotivation — but NO body (a
# highlight just marks a span; for an annotation that says something, a body-
# bearing gmeow:Annotation subclass is used). A gmeow:Comment is a Note that
# threads under a parent.
@prefix gmeow: <https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/> .
@prefix ex:    <https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/examples/notes/> .
@prefix xsd:   <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .

Projects To

External Equivalences

Equivalent or closely aligned targets: oa

Linkages

Generated from the canonical mapping DSL. SSSOM files are the generated public interchange form for term equivalences.

Term Equivalences

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