Hypothesis at Society for Neuroscience
At long last, I’m able to sit down and summarize my thoughts and experiences on Hypothesis at the Society for Neuroscience meeting in Chicago, Oct 17-21st. First of all, a […]
Blogs
Sharing social annotation insights.
Read our latest resources, best practices, upcoming events, and thought leadership articles.
Using Hypothesis Groups in the Classroom
A couple of weeks ago, we quietly released a new feature here at hypothes.is: the ability to annotate websites and PDFs in groups. Previously, all annotations created using hypothes.is were […]
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 […]
Fund: Annotations in Ebooks
We’re excited to announce a new project funded via the Open Annotation Fund. A grant of $7,300 to Fred Chasen to develop EPUB format integration for Hypothes.is. Below is a […]
Call for Annotations: Hypothesis Reading Group for James Brown’s Ethical Programs
In honor of Open Access Week, October 18 through 25, the University of Texas at Austin’s Digital Writing and Research Lab (DWRL) will lead a collaborative annotation of James Brown’s […]
Working with Wikipedia articles
Hypothesis is exploring the use of on-line annotation to provide review and enhancement of Wikipedia articles. The Neuroscience Wiki Project encourages the neuroscience community to improve the accuracy and robustness […]
Introducing web-based annotation to neuroscience
For as long as we have produced scholarly works, we have annotated them. From scribbles in the margin, to underlines and highlights, to learned commentary providing additional information, academics routinely […]
Really, You Can Annotate Anything
Well, any text, that is. Hypothesis is working with various partners on image and video annotation, but this blog is about the range of texts that you can annotate using the app. […]
Back to School With Annotation: 10 Ways to Annotate With Students
It’s back-to-school season and I find myself once again encouraging teachers to discuss course readings with their students using collaborative web annotation technologies like Hypothesis. Though relatively new to Hypothesis, […]
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 […]