Web Annotation Protocol

File Format
Name	Web Annotation Protocol
Ontology	Electronic File Formats Annotation Web Annotation Protocol
MIME Type(s)	application/ld+json
Released	2017

Web Annotation Protocol is a W3C recommendation for servers providing notes or annotations related to particular web pages. It defines a format based on JSON serialization and some rules regarding the requests and responses pertaining to this format.

The full content type (MIME type) line when this data is served is application/ld+json;profile="http://www.w3.org/ns/anno.jsonld", including a 'profile' parameter.

Specifications

• W3C Recommendation

Links

• Wikipedia article on web annotation
• Annotation Is Now a Web Standard