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- <h1>About Local Annotations</h1>
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- <p>Amaya can store annotation data in a local file system (often called
- "local annotations") or it can store annotations <span style="color:blue"><a
- href="about_storing_remote_annotations.html">remotely</a></span>, accessed
- through the World Wide Web (called "remote annotations").</p>
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- <p>You do not need a server to create local annotations. Local annotations
- are stored under the user preferences directory, in a special directory
- called <strong>annotations</strong>, and can be seen only by their owner
- (according to the system access right setup). This directory contains three
- kinds of files:</p>
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- <li><strong>annot.index:</strong> Associates URLs with the files
- containing the metadata of the annotations.
- </li>
- <li><strong>index + random suffix:</strong> Stores the metadata of the
- annotations related to a given URL. The metadata is specified with RDF.
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- </li>
- <li><strong>annot + random suffix.html:</strong> Contains the body of an
- annotation, stored as XHTML.</li>
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- <p>At any time, you can convert a local annotation to a shared one by
- choosing <strong>Post annotation</strong> from the
- <strong>Annotations</strong> menu. Once this is completed, the local
- annotation is deleted because it has been moved to an annotation server.</p>
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- <h2>See also:</h2>
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- <li><span class="Link0"><a href="about_storing_remote_annotations.html">About Stored Annotations</a></span></li>
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