Glosary

Backlink

• Names: Backlink, Incoming link
• Names(es): "Backlink", Enlace entrante
• Definition: Referring to a resource A, backlink would be a link from any other resource into A
• Follow-up: Backlinks might be like comments being made on resource A without an annotation system
• Follow-up: Backlinks are already registered in some cases: Search Engines might tell you about pages linking into a given URL. MediaWiki has a "what links here" feature.
• Follow-up: Information about backlinks might be stored in a linkbase
• Follow-up: However, most times you don't know what fragment in resource A the backlinks refers to.
• References: wikipedia:Backlink,wikipedia:Hyperlink

Categorization

See also: Categorization

• Names: Categorization, Bookmarking, Folksonomy
• Names(es): Categorización, "Bookmarking", Folksonomía
• Definition: Tagging of resources, So some calification is available about the resource, and related resources (same tag) might be easily accessed.
• Follow up: Categorization might work as some kind of moderation. Most tagged elements resources be worth looking at (regardless the tags might be negative about it).
• Examples: Delicious
• References: wikipedia:Folksonomy, wikipedia:Social Bookmarking

Concept

• Names: Concept
• Names(es): Concepto
• Definition: One simple idea/thing that can be expressed. For example "Socrates is mortal" may be a concept. As well as the definition of "Socrates", "is" and "mortal".
• Follow-up: Concepts related to objects or other concepts might sum up a Concept compilation (such as Cyc), which can be used for reference and for reasoning.
• Follow-up: A system such as Everything2 is focused on showing related concepts

Dissection

See also: Dissection

• Names: Dissection, Breakdown
• Names(es): Disección, despiece/desglose
• Definition: The declaration of the parts and linked anchors contained in a reference.
• Follow-up: The items in the dissection might contain some information about related annotations.

Fragment Identifier

See also: Fragment identifier

• Names: Fragment identifier
• Names(es): Identificador de fragmento
• Definition: "short string of characters that refers to a resource that is subordinate to another, primary resource" (Wikipedia)
• References: Wikipedia:Fragment_identifier

Linkbase

• Names: Linkbase, Link database
• Names(es): "Linkbase", base de datos de enlaces
• Definition: A data store specialized in links
• Follow-up: Might contain customized attributes for the links, ternary or N-ary links, and links which are not explicitly definied in their source
• Follow-up: Linkbase might reference/delegate on other linkbases ("Lookup this (other) linkbase which has reported to have links related to the resource you requested").
• Academic search
• References: XLink 1.0

Moderation

See also: Moderation

• Names: Moderation
• Names(es): Moderación
• Definition: Procedures to review if a resource or annotation is worthy or noxious, so the system can highlight, hide or remove elements for the interest of the users.

Reference

• Names: Reference
• Names(es): Referencia
• Definition: Annotation System's record of one or many resources which are instances of the same work (e.g. different copies of the same article), where annotations introduced might be shared.
• Example: Some software documentation translated into different languages
• Example: Some movie's video, plus original and dubbed audio tracks, plus subtitles.
• Not example: Different versions of the same document, as concepts represented and annotated might change.