The Annotations API is an extension to the Europeana REST API which allows you to create, retrieve and manage annotations on Europeana objects. Annotations are user-contributed or system-generated enhancements, additions or corrections to (or a selection of) metadata or media. We adopted the Web Annotation Data Model as a base model for the representation of annotations and as a format for exchanging annotations between client applications and the API, but also the Web Annotation Protocol as base HTTP protocol for the API.

{
  "@context": “http://www.w3.org/ns/anno.jsonld”
  "id": "http://data.europeana.eu/annotations/1",
  "type": "Annotation",
  "created": "2015-03-10T14:08:07Z",
  "creator": {
    "type": "Person",
    "name": "John Smith"
  },
  "generated": "2015-04-01T09:00:00Z",
  "generator": {
      "type": "Software",
      "name": "HistoryPin",
      "homepage": "https://www.historypin.org/"
  },
  "motivation": "tagging",
  "bodyValue": "MyBeautifulTag",
  "target": "http://data.europeana.eu/item/92062/BibliographicResource_1000126189360"
}