Profile driven method for enabling annotation of World Wide Web resources

Disclosed are a client server annotation system for, and a method of, managing annotations for Web pages. The preferred client server annotation system comprises an annotation server for storing annotations; a set of Web page profiles, each of the page profiles being associated with one of the Web pages; and a client system including a client computer system. The client computer system includes instructions to execute a method comprising accessing Web pages, sending requests to the annotation server, locating at least one Web page profile, and using the located Web page profile to retrieve or store annotation information, from or to the annotation server, about the Web page associated with the Web page profile.