annotation target span

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

An optional anchored span within the annotation target — a text quote, position, or fragment selector. Non-functional: an annotation may reference multiple spans (e.g. several disjoint highlights in the same document). Reuses EvidenceSpan and its selector properties; no second selector model is minted.

Structure

Property shape: object property; gmeow:Annotation -> gmeow:EvidenceSpan

Practical Pattern

Use gmeow:annotationTargetSpan from gmeow:Annotation to gmeow:EvidenceSpan 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:EvidenceSpan

Projects To

Linkages

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

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