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Meet Via

We’ve streamlined adding your thoughts to the Web. Our new home page features a field for pasting in any URL and annotating it. We call this system Via. Via simplifies […]

Threading. When and why.

In conversation, people respond to others thoughts. In an online discussion system, how this is enabled can suggest a few key design questions. One of these questions is often whether […]

Introducing Math

We are creating an annotation technology that can be used to enrich human knowledge. Today we take another step forward: Hypothes.is now supports math typesetting. You can now place beautifully […]

Helmsley Trust Supports Open Annotation in Biomedical Research

Annotations at the W3C

For a while now, we’ve been working with a dedicated group of individuals towards a web annotation standard– the idea being that annotation is something that will be fundamental to […]

Launch!

As of today, we’re making our general purpose annotator available from our homepage. If you use the Chrome browser, you can download and install it as an extension. An equivalent […]

Open Annotation RDFa using Hypothes.is JSON

The Open Annotation Core Data Model is something we’re keen to include in future Hypothes.is releases. We’re exploring using it via JSON-LD natively in AnnotatorJS. Along the way, we’re experimenting […]

Supporting Open Annotation

In its mission to connect the world’s knowledge and thoughts, the solution Hypothes.is pursues is a web-wide mechanism to create, share and discover annotations. One of our principal steps towards this […]

Let’s get building!

This week saw Nick Stenning’s first week at Hypothes.is. Nick previously worked at Open Knowledge, where along with Aron Carroll and Rufus Pollock he was one of the authors of […]