A system that improves the current state of the art with a device for users to annotate information system resources with semantically rich data and that same data is then immediately transformed into structured machine-readable content that is portable and re-usable through linked data methods. The techniques used in the invention can be used over many combinations of information systems and resources, including the internet, in a stand-alone configuration, or in an intranet or enterprise system; for resources including images, documents, music files, videos, or any other resources that exist in a digital domain.