A Coalition for Scholarly Annotation
On April 17th, the Annotating all Knowledge coalition gathered in Portland to begin the work of defining, designing, and implementing a common framework for scholarly collaboration. Members of the coalition […]
Author: judell
Direct Linking
If you click here, one of two things will happen. With the Hypothesis extension installed, you’ll open a page at dougengelbart.org where the Hypothesis sidebar will open and focus on […]
SciBot: Machine and human annotators working together
Last April, at I Annotate Hack Days, several of the developers who showed up wanted to use the Hypothesis API not only to read annotations but also to create them. […]
DIY @mentions
A posse of Hypothesis users got together for delightful exploration that started with Playful Annotation in the Open and continued in the Hypothesis annotation layer for that blog post. (And then […]
The Annotated FAQ
A few weeks ago we published a frequently-asked questions page. In the time-honored tradition of the internet FAQ, we want ours to be a living document that evolves as we […]
An Illustrated Taxonomy of Annotation Types
I’m often asked: “What does the Hypothes.is software do?” The elevator pitch is easy. “Visit a web page, then select some text and annotate with comments or tags. You’ll see […]
Annotating to extract findings from scientific papers
David Kennedy is a neurobiologist who periodically reviews the literature in his field and extracts findings, which are structured interpretations of statements in scientific papers. He recently began using Hypothesis […]
Introducing Groups
Our mission here at Hypothesis is to enable a conversation over the world’s knowledge. So far that’s been a public conversation. But some conversations need to flourish in private spaces. You’ve […]
Do-it-yourself anchoring and the evolution of the Hypothesis toolkit
Here’s a picture of a web page with two annotations made using Hypothesis. If you’re familiar with our tool, you’ll notice that these highlights are unusual. Normally they’re yellow, here […]
Using Atom feeds to receive Hypothesis notifications in Slack
Update: We have since implemented RSS and that turns out to be a better solution than Atom for Slack integration. To use it, just change stream.atom to stream.rss in the […]