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[MouseOnMars]

What method do Planetary Scientists use for annotating and commenting images ? Is there a formal method in use or is this done informally using a graphics package to add text and markers ? The reason I ask is that I am trying to develop such a method for my project Space Data Wiki. The advantage to having a formal method is that the annotations can be linked using the "Semantic Web" using RDF and OWL technologies (as I understand it at the moment). See "Annotation". Any information or suggestions will be much appreciated.

[MouseOnMars]

What are your sources ? Has there ever been a convention ? If there has been maybe it was applied in the wrong fashion. If there never has been, then I intend to try again. I appreciate that there are so many comment forms and types of annotation. But this is the purpose of having an organised approach to them and indeed an approach to investigating and categorising the increasing amounts of data coming back from space. What you may not be aware of is that I'm not the only one to notice this problem. This quote is from an introduction by the Planetary Cartography and Geologic Mapping Working Group ...

"In this document the Planetary Cartography and Geologic
Mapping Working Group will assess the cartographic products, tools, and needs
for the planetary community in the decade 2005–2015. Of particular concern is
the vast amount of data anticipated from ongoing and planned missions."