Report on the State-of-the-Art and Requirements for Annotation Representation Models

INSEMTIVES overall goals is to increase the amount of available semantic content by looking into incentives and by bridging the gap between human and computational intelligence. Annotations are one form of semantic content which are supposed to make implicit information explicit and which typically attach additional meaning to a resource. This deliverable provides a classification scheme for annotation models and summarizes the state of the art in the areas relevant for the INSEMTIVES project. It concludes with an analysis of the requirements of the use cases partners in the project with respect to annotation models and a summary of them.