Apache Annotator (incubating)

Selector Demonstration

This page demonstrates Web Annotation Selectors, standardised JSON objects that describe a selection inside a document with sufficient information to find it back.

Select text here

Hello, annotated world! To annotate, or not to annotate, that is the question.

Try selecting some text in this paragraph above. Upon a change of selection, a TextQuoteSelector will be created, that describes what was selected.

Text is found here

Hello, annotated world! To annotate, or not to annotate, that is the question.

The selector is ‘anchored’ here: the segment it describes is found and highlighted.

The selector as JSON:


      

Here are other selectors you can anchor in the text above: