Hypothesis Joins the National Information Standards Organization
Hypothesis is joining NISO to support, build, and promote a standards-based information ecosystem.
Category: Journalism
2017: A Remarkable Year for Annotation
2017 was a landmark year for Hypothesis and open annotation. Catch up on a year’s worth of annotation news and learn more about the latest progress in our mission to enable a conversation over the world’s knowledge.
New Feature: Embedding TV News in Open Annotations
The Internet Archive and Hypothesis announce a new integration that enables open annotations to include embedded video from the TV News Archive’s huge collection.
Let’s Use the Annotated Web to Coordinate the Struggle Against Fake News
Originally written for MisinfoCon, Jon Udell from Hypothesis explores using annotation across what he calls “the annotated web” to empower fact-checking and combat fake news.
A New Milestone: 2 Million Annotations and Counting
Hypothesis users have created over two million annotations, taking personal notes and collaborating in research and scholarship, teaching and learning, and journalism and fact-checking.
10K Annotations in a Single Day
On 14 September, for the first time ever, Hypothesis users created over 10,000 annotations in a single day, as our growth in annotations continued to accelerate.
Fund: Scaling Up Content Analysis, Complete
With support from the Hypothesis Open Annotation Fund, the TextThresher team has developed software that allows researchers to enlist citizen scientists in the complex annotation of large bodies of text.
Teaching Students to Marshal Evidence and Evaluate Claims
Using annotation to marshal evidence in factchecking news with the Digital Polarization Initiative.
Annotating TV News
Annotating video in the Internet Archive’s TV News Archive, a remarkable resource that provides video clips of TV news shows since 2009.
Our Millionth Annotation
It was getting close to midnight and the Hypothesis team was watching the counter of total annotations tick up: 999,646…999,752…999,845…by 10:37pm Pacific Time it was 999,959 and we knew we’d reach one million annotations that night. People all over the world were busy taking notes using Hypothesis—students, journalists, researchers, scientists, scholars—most without knowing that our team and the annotation community on social media were rooting for their work. Countdown tweets for a #millionannotations were starting to gather an audience. Who would add the millionth annotation?