Web Annotation Data Model

W3C Recommendation of February 2017 for describing annotations, such as comments, highlights and tags, in JSON-LD so they can be shared between tools; IIIF uses it for annotations on images.

Read the specification ↗ w3.org

Part of the thread Can readers write back? proposes

builds on

• JSON-LD standard 2014 [src]

published by

• World Wide Web Consortium organization 1994 [src]

edited by

• Benjamin Young person [src]
• Paolo Ciccarese person [src]
• Robert Sanderson person [src]

contributors

• Hypothesis organization 2011 [src]

built upon by

• International Image Interoperability Framework standard 2012 [src]

Sources

• https://www.w3.org/TR/annotation-model/