microannotation

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A form of micro-annotation — Annotation of a small subset of an image, document, corpus, piece of music, etc.

Scrabble 19

Meanings

nounmicroannotation (countable and uncountable, plural microannotations)

plural microannotations

  1. alternativecountableuncountableAlternative form of micro-annotation.

    […] maps were expected to generate more macroannotations, such as making connections, than their text annotating counterparts, who are expected to generate more microannotations, […]

    1997, Jeremy L. Moreland, Donald F. Dansereau, Todd L. Chmielewski, “Recall of descriptive information: The roles of presentation format, annotation strategy, and individual differences”, in Contemporary Educational Psychology, volume 22, number 4
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    User login provides microannotation of contributions by those scientists creating new lines, adding images, molecular data, ZFA image tags or contributing to the digital notebook of a line.

    2012, Karl J. J Clark, David P. Argue, Andrew M. Petzold, Stephen C. Ekker, “zfishbook: connecting you to a world of zebrafish revertible mutants”, in Nucleic Acids Research, volume 40, number D1

    A restrictive license, in this context, is any license that places additional requirements or caveats on use of the data. Investment in data citation, data publication, microannotation, and nanopublication [39–44] will reduce the need for the restrictive licenses and nonstandard use agreements that are often in place to track reuse and impact.

    2021 March 26, Anne E. Thessen, Paul Bogdan, David J. Patterson, Theresa M. Casey, César Hinojo-Hinojo, Orlando de Lange, Melissa A. Haendel, “From Reductionism to Reintegration: Solving society's most pressing problems requires building bridges between data types across the life sciences”, in PLOS: Biology
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