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The annotation is essentially the association of some metadata with some other object, called target data.  The target data can be everything, starting with a table in a database, a file or document, or virtually any type of information. The annotation also has a wide range of meanings, so that it can be either a link to another table in a database or another database, a comment for a document, or the classical sticky note that is put on the fridge's door. The annotations a very important when working with great amount of data, the scientists and the

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