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Add sections of annotation and annotation (keyword) in the glossary #668

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Expand Up @@ -149,6 +149,23 @@ The JSON Schema specification includes a number of vocabularies which cover each

In some [dialects](#dialect) of JSON Schema, the `$vocabulary` keyword can be used to include the keywords defined by a vocabulary into the dialect, as well as to indicate whether implementations must specifically recognize the vocabulary in order to be able to process schemas written in the dialect or not.

### Annotation

Annotation is a piece of metadata attached to a piece of code, used to convey additional information about the code like its workings, the algorithm that it internally uses, etc.
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This is a good general definition of an annotation, but let's come up with something a little more focused on JSON Schema. What does an annotation do for instance data?



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Annotations provide supplementary information for developers to express intended usage, constraints, configurations or manage complexity, especially when the JSON Schema's definition gets enormous.

Different [keywords](#annotation-(keywords)) are defined within JSON Schema to convey various aspects of the schema, making it self-reliant and self-documenting.

### Annotation (Keywords)

Specific "Keys" acting as self-serving documentation for the defined schema by explaining the intended usage or constraints.

Annotation keywords can be used in any schema or sub-schemas as they don't affect any logical operations for the schema, such as validation, As they are only for the schema's "self-documenting" purposes.

Using these keywords is optional but recommended, as this makes your schema self-reliant. [Specific annotation keywords](../understanding-json-schema/reference/annotations) might depend on which draft version of the JSON schema you are employing.

#### See also

* [`json-schema-vocabularies`](https://github.com/json-schema-org/json-schema-vocabularies), a repository which collects known third-party JSON Schema vocabularies