micro-annotation

English

Noun

micro-annotation (countable and uncountable, plural micro-annotations)

1. Annotation of a small subset of an image, document, corpus, piece of music, etc.
   • 2005, Perfecto Herrera, Òscar Celma, Jordi Massaguer, Pedro Cano, Emilia Gómez, Fabien Gouyon, Markus Koppenberger, David García, José-Pedro García, Nicolas Wack, MUCOSA: A Music Content Semantic Annotator:

     It is composed of three tiers: an annotation client that deals with micro-annotations (i.e. within-file annotations), a collection tagger, which deals with macro-annotations (i.e. across-files annotations), and a collaborative annotation subsystem, which manages large-scale annotation tasks that can be shared among different research centres.

   • 2007, Marc Leman, Embodied Music Cognition and Mediation Technology, page 231:

     Two strategies have been used to obtain accurate annotations: corporeal annotation and micro-annotation.

   • 2009, Lutz Peter Koepnick, Erin Heather McGlothlin, After the Digital Divide?:, page 178:

     Moreover, users of Hypermedia Berlin are able to add micro-annotations by geo-tagging points, lines, and polygons, such as Motzstrasse 48 in the year 2003, or the northwest corner of Leipzigerstrasse and Wilhelmstrasse from 1920 to 1945.

   • 2010, Jaimey Fisher, Barbara Caroline Mennel, Spatial Turns, page 469:

     A "micro-annotation” that says “my grandmother lived here from 1910–1987” participates in a “writerly” project of memory that the participatory architecture of Web 2.0 applications has made possible.

   • 2019, Simon K. S. Cheung, Lap-Kei Lee, Ivana Simonova, Blended Learning: Educational Innovation for Personalized Learning, page 24:

     The core functions of Online Behavior Interactive Module are as follows: creation of learning cell knowledge content, collaborative edition of knowledge content, comparison about the evolutionary versisons of knowledge content, full-text annotation, paragraph micro-annotation, resource evaluation, resource review, semantic information management, resource semantics associations, learning activities, learning tools, personal space, friends management, knowledge ontology construction, knowledge networks, interpersonal networks, social knowledge networks, semantic tag annotation, semantic searching, community learning and interaction, tools for aggregating resources, etc.