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Annotation is the process of associating metadata with data. This article presents a Web services API intended as an industry standard for client-server systems designed to facilitate the structured annotation of heterogeneous data. The author presents the goals of the Annotation Web services API and then discusses how those goals motivate the data model around which the API operates. The author also discusses 29 methods that comprise the API including two examples of possible sequences of API calls to create and retrieve annotations. The Annotation

We recommend that certain principles guide any work to define a framework for Web services semantics. Our work is guided by the following principles. ? Build on existing Web Services standards: The Web services standards are fast becoming a preferred technology for application integration because of the promise of their interoperability. Companies are making investments in integration projects based on Web Services. Therefore, we believe that any approach to adding semantics to Web Services should be specified in an upwardly compatible