microannotation

micro- +‎ annotation

microannotation (countable and uncountable, plural microannotations)

1. Very small-scale annotation, typically of images.
   • 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:

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

   • 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:

     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.

   • 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:

     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.