Micro-annotation
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Annotation of a small subset of an image, document, corpus, piece of music, etc. countable, uncountable
"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."
Example
More examples"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."
Etymology
From micro- + annotation.
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