7. A computer-implemented method for deploying an annotation management system on a network and searching the system, the method comprising: installing the annotation management system on the network; identifying by an administrator an annotatable data item manipulated by at least one application on the network; defining at least one annotation structure of an annotation to be received from an annotation author comprising one or more annotation fields; assigning the at least one annotation structure to the data item; structuring the annotation based on a context of the annotation author; presenting the annotation on retrieval by a reader in a different format than as received from the annotation author based on a context of the reader of the annotation; receiving a query having conditions, the conditions including annotation search conditions and data search conditions; simultaneously searching both an annotation database and a data objects to produce a search result, the search result containing objects that satisfy both the annotation search conditions and the data search conditions; and presenting the search result to the user.
7. A computer-implemented method for deploying an annotation management system on a network and searching the system, the method comprising: installing the annotation management system on the network; identifying by an administrator an annotatable data item manipulated by at least one application on the network; defining at least one annotation structure of an annotation to be received from an annotation author comprising one or more annotation fields; assigning the at least one annotation structure to the data item; structuring the annotation based on a context of the annotation author; presenting the annotation on retrieval by a reader in a different format than as received from the annotation author based on a context of the reader of the annotation; receiving a query having conditions, the conditions including annotation search conditions and data search conditions; simultaneously searching both an annotation database and a data objects to produce a search result, the search result containing objects that satisfy both the annotation search conditions and the data search conditions; and presenting the search result to the user. 8. The computer-implemented method of claim 7 , wherein defining the at least one annotation structure comprises: entering at least one category of information to be captured about the data item; and defining the at least one annotation structure based on the category.