Annotating the news
The desire to engage in a conversation – and to debate – is central to human experience. At Hypothes.is, we’re trying to bring that capability to the web. We realize […]
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Guidance for Web Publishers
Hypothesis enables you annotate the Web. However, some things work better if we know just a little bit more about the web resource that you are annotating. For example, imagine […]
Cross Format Annotation
In 1960 I had a vision of a world-wide system of electronic publishing, anarchic and populist, where anyone could publish anything and anyone could read it. (So far, sounds like […]
Epub.js: Bringing Open Annotation to Books
Why should we annotate books? Here’s a short story to illustrate: Once upon a time, there were two notable ink-makers, Amaz and Applet (there were others of course, but those […]
Fuzzy Anchoring
Overview A large part of the unique potential of annotation comes from its ability to point inside media to specific places. Because of this, we must be able to reliably […]
I Annotate 2013: Our Take
Last week, about 100 technologists, hackers, publishers, scientists, scholars, and librarians from around the world gathered at Fort Mason in San Francisco, CA for the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation funded […]
Designers and Geeks
Recently we had the opportunity to present to Joe Robinson’s excellent Designers and Geeks series, which we gladly accepted. Several hundred local designers gathered this last Thursday at Yelp, and […]
I Annotate: A Workshop.
After two decades of progress in infrastructure and web technologies, we believe the time is finally at hand to realize the widespread annotation of human knowledge. On a recent call […]
Embedded Annotations
One of the key features of annotation is the ability to link not only to the top of a document, but to passages within it. We can think of an […]