looks like the W3C is taking Third Voice's web site "annotation" idea, opening the development and splashing it with Metadata to make way for the Semantic Web …interesting:

"Annotea is part of the W3C's Semantic Web project, which aims to overhaul the basic language of the Web to make categorizing and describing online information faster and easier."

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