annotation motivation

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

The motivation of an annotation — the purpose for which the body is attached to the target. Functional per relator: one motivation per Annotation. An open value vocabulary of individuals (Principle 9); no motivation is privileged as primary.

Structure

Property shape: object property; gmeow:Annotation -> gmeow:AnnotationMotivation; functional

Practical Pattern

Use gmeow:annotationMotivation from gmeow:Annotation to gmeow:AnnotationMotivation when the relationship itself belongs in the native GMEOW graph.

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, gmeow:AnnotationMotivation

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

Projection Coverage