- Despite the name, it¦s important to understand that an Annotation is essentially just a motivated collection of links, and this class may be used anywhere a motivated collection of links is desired.
+ It is important to understand that Annotations are, themselves, resources, independent of their bodies:
+ Annotations and their bodies might have different <ref target="dc:creator">creators</ref> and might be created on different days.
+ An Annotation motivated by <ref target="anno:replying">Replying</ref> does not imply that its body is <ref target="sioc:reply_to">in reply to</ref> its target (but rather that the <em>creator</em> of the Annotation is using its body to reply).
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+ Despite the name, and the above caveats aside, an Annotation is essentially just a motivated collection of links, and this class may be used anywhere a motivated collection of links is desired.