Highlight

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

An annotation that marks an anchored span within a target and carries no body — a pure target+selector binding motivated by highlighting.

Structure

Subclass of: gmeow:Annotation

Practical Pattern

Use gmeow:Highlight as a specialized kind of gmeow:Annotation. 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#> .

# --- A highlight on the paper: it pins WHICH span via annotationTargetSpan (a
#     Selector) and is motivated by highlighting — a pure target+span binding,
#     no body (that is the Highlight contract).
ex:highlight a gmeow:Highlight ;
    gmeow:annotationTarget     ex:paper ;
    gmeow:annotationTargetSpan ex:span ;
    gmeow:annotationMotivation gmeow:motivationHighlighting .

Common Companion Terms

gmeow:Annotation

Projects To

Linkages

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

Projection Coverage