To annotate means to insert any extra information or any other information in a document. Lets take an example in a draft document a reader might have written certain points about the quality of the read document, this is called as annotation. The online annotation that is associated with web is called as web annotation. Basically it is a web page.

By using web annotation any information on the web resource can be removed, modified, and added by the user, without making changes in the original resource. In simple words this annotation is the layer made over the existing resource. The users who have the similar annotation system can view this annotation layer. This makes the annotation social software.

Use of annotate web

Web annotation is used for rating the web source on the basis of its user-friendliness, suitability and usefulness incase it is viewed by the minors. It is also used for adding or removing some part of a document so as to improve its content. It is a collaborative system, a system that is designed to help people who are working on a similar task. For example, they are used for discussing the contents that are on a web resource.

The web users in a web annotation are allowed to criticize, protest, and enrich the work or the ideas of the institution seen on the web. Web annotations quantify between the relationship of the different information fragments. It is basically a system that allows the user to change the information if the user is of the view that it has being not correctly presented, but changes can’t be made in the existing document.

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