Press

For the past few years, I’ve been working to improve how content experts at my university can write, develop, and publish open educational resources. Early in 2016, I published my own set of core principles for an authoring & publishing tool. For the last two years, I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about how to better accomplish the last two principles on that original list, namely how to incorporate multimedia, web annotation, and interactivity into our texts, and how to ensure that we can incorporate these texts into various learning management systems, complete with assessment and learning analytics capabilities.

AGU journals will incorporate open source software to facilitate dialog among reviewers, editors and authors during peer review.

In recent years, a movement to make research more transparent has taken root in the social sciences. Innovative platforms and technical tools empower scholars to provide a more complete picture of their research.

Investigación Social punto Net (IS.net) is a project based in Bolivia that provides a collaborative publishing and communication platform focused on the social sciences. This post in Spanish describes how IS.net has integrated annotation into their platform using Hypothesis. IS.net is led by the nonprofit organization, Nodo Común, which is a member of Annotating All Knowledge, a coalition of some of the world’s key publishers, platforms, libraries, and technology organizations that collaborate to create an open, interoperable annotation layer over their content.

Peer review of research articles is a core part of our scholarly communication system. In spite of its importance, the status and purpose of peer review is often contested. What is its role in our modern digital research and communications infrastructure? Includes a discussion of how digital annotation using Hypothesis has the potential to enable new kinds of workflows where editors, authors, and reviewers all participate in conversations focussed on research manuscripts or other digital objects.

Heather Staines describes the work of Hypothesis, which promotes annotation capability across the web.

Hypothes.is is a web tool that allows users to annotate online text and webpages. After registering with the Hypothes.is and logging in, users next need to paste the address of the website they wish to annotate into the box. Hypothes.is then loads the website in its shell. To annotate the website, users must first select text with their mouse, and then they can choose to highlight the text in color and/or annotate it. The “Highlight” option places a color overlay on the text, so it stands out when users view the website. The “Annotate” option allows users to add notes, images, stylized text, links, and tags in the margin next to the selected text.

With so many mergers and acquisitions around us, as well as the consistently high levels of interest in innovation, how can we anticipate what will stick and what won’t?

How the EIC.network’s decentralized platform enables reporters to securely collaborate across borders.

Annotations are going to be transformative for publishing. They’ll soon become something we take for granted, and we’ll wonder how we ever lived without them.