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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.

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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.

The current generation of web annotation technologies use a set of keying techniques, often based on the Document Object Model (DOM) for representing HTML content, that link an annotation to its target content. However, when the DOM structure changes, for any reason, or browser rendering engines parse the underlying source differently, annotations can be orphaned and incorrectly re-attached. This article explores the preservation strategies that are required to ensure the longevity of scholarly annotations that use such technologies. These recommendations range from the social changes needed for the perception of annotations as first-class scholarly objects through to the technological changes and infrastructures that are needed for the preservation of such objects. It concludes with a series of recommendations for changes in practice and infrastructure that work towards the digital preservation of DOM-node-keyed scholarly web annotations.

Hypothes.is is a leading collaborative annotation tools for educators. This tool allows for private, public and closed-group annotations. Check out their Education page and Quick-Start guide for getting set up yourself.

A vibrant conversation is underway about how research data should be curated, managed, and shared.