Hypothes.is Project:
All knowledge, annotated.2
A non-profit project to
enable community
moderated annotation of the
world’s knowledge.
Open Annotation
• Standards based and interoperable.
• Are themselves addressable.
• Work across representations and
formats.
• Point to general bodies or specific
passages.
• Permit reference chaining across
locations.
• Enable threaded discussions.
• Resilient to document changes.
Annotation terms
Target (manuscript)
selector
(specific
location)
body
W3C Open Annotation
Flavors
address
body
target
/ URI
selection
Annotation
Comment
Highlight
Bookmark
The challenge of pointing
World of annotations
Document “A”
Blog “B”
Blog “B”
17m 32s
Blog “B”
Annotate anywhere, view
everywhere
URL
HTML
URL / doi / hash
PDF
Link representations
The quick brown fox juxps over the lazy dog.
Architecting robustness
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
Fuzzy matching
away the cat will play. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. Jack and Jill ran up the
prefix
selection
postfix
https://github.com/hypothesis/h/wiki/fuzzy-anchoring
Survive larger edits
Survive larger edits
Annotation
Peer-review
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Document “A”
Challenge / Support
Neutral comment
Raise a question
Pose a response
Blog “B”
Request expert review
Supply a correction
Provide a reference
Point to similar articles
Aiding review processes
Document “A”
Reputation and identity
Signal
Meta-moderation
VOLUME
Voice
Noise floor
Obvious trolls
Spam
SQUELCH
Noise
Identity
Pre-pub peer review
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Whole (article) vs component review.
Scoring of both review and reviewer.
Can be structured open, closed, hybrid.
Reviewers assigned, or (self-/) elected.
Promoting material public post-publication.
Annotation helps re-create workflow.
Post-pub peer review
A new capacity for encouraging discourse,
spurring innovation, advancing knowledge.
Privacy, moderation, spam and trolling.
(Pro tip: You’ll get this for free if you
implement pre-pub OA peer review)
Journal policies
We need to consider journal articles, data,
images, and annotations as part of the web
experience.
The web browser is the user’s agent.
Assume content is part of the web, instead
of a discrete item, deposited in a user’s file
system.
Annotation demo
It should be where we are.
Select some text.
Contribute our thinking.
Have a discussion.
Link to it.
Share it.
Embed it.
Embed it.
PDF annotations
PDF annotations
And the HTML equivalent
Ahoy, matey! Be in touch!
Credits/Team
Dan Whaley
Randall Leeds
Peter Brantley
Gergely Újvári
Jehan Tremback
Ed Summers
Kristof Csillag
… many many more
Our bona fides:
Hypothes.is
Pier 26
The Embarcadero
San Francisco CA 94105
USA
@hypothes_is