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the engine room

19 May, 2015
The engine room asked me to take a look at how the book could be put online, to facilitate this conversation online, and try to make the book a little more engaging for people we’d love to learn from and hear from. This blog post is a summary of what we learned along the way.

NPR's On The Media

10 April, 2015
Climate change is arguably the most urgent story in human history, but journalism has struggled to address the threat. This week, an exploration of new efforts by the press to understand and explain the science – and to get you involved.

Sharing and Learning

11 March, 2015
I also like hypothes.is because it is an open project. I don’t just mean that it allows the content of annotations to be shared creating open discussion, though it does, and I like that. I don’t just mean that it works on the open web rather than within the confines of a single site, though it does, and I like that. I just don’t mean that it’s Open Source, though it is, and I like that. And I just don’t mean that it’s supporting open standards, though it is, and I like that. What I really like is the openness in discussing the projects goals, approaches, plans that can be found on the project wiki and blog.

Forbes

24 February, 2015
Dan Whaley, the founder of Hypothes.is, said future iterations of the tool will address this by creating group modes or channels. This would allow a Hypothes.is user to visit Bjorn Lomborg’s op-ed and quickly isolate only the annotations of the Climate Feedback Project’s team of scientists. It will also allow the project to restrict its membership only to those scientists it has vetted for commenting under its name. The long-term goal, Whaley said, “is to have high quality content discoverable publicly as an annotated layer over the Web.”

Future Publications in den Humanities

28 December, 2014
Nimmt man den Twitterstream als Fenster zur Welt, so war heute auf der SWIB14 – Semantic Web in Libraries Conference (#swib14) der Webannotator von hypothes.is das Thema. Es ist schwer einzuschätzen, wie erfolgreich er bisher ist. Der Echtzeit-Annotationsstrom für öffentlich sichtbare Annotation weist derzeit noch nicht auf eine allzu hohe Nutzungsintensität hin. Es ist jedoch zu erwarten, dass sich das, sofern die technische Performanz das zulässt, bald ändert.

Skeptical Software Tools

15 December, 2014
So what is web annotation? It’s very simple – it’s a way of attaching comments, criticism and so on directly to original content on the web. Unlike conventional comment threads, which are often a distant scroll away from the text to which they refer, annotations appear right next to the original. And since annotations reside in hypothes.is, they are not subject to the censorious whims of the owner of the original content.

The Alliance for Networking Visual Culture

11 December, 2014
We’re pleased to announce that the powerful annotation plugin developed by the folks at Hypothes.is is now a fully supported feature in Scalar books. Good for reader responses, collaborative authoring and even copyediting, Hypothes.is allows users to highlight, comment on and form discuss threads around selections of text in a Scalar book.

Quartz

7 December, 2014
Vincent partnered with the web application Hypothes.is that is creating a browser plug-in, so that Climate Feedback’s scientists and experts can annotate news stories, blogs and scientific articles with community-reviewed commentary, references, and insight. Each article is rated overall for its accuracy.

Salon

4 December, 2014
Scroll through the annotations, and you can read in detail why the six climate scientists who reviewed the article — all post-doc researchers in the field — gave its “overall scientific quality” a rating of 0.5 out of 4. The reviewers note where Koonin’s claims are misleading, incomplete or patently false and explain their reasoning for each point.

MIT News

2 December, 2014
Climate Feedback, an application of the Hypothes.is platform to climate science communication, will allow active climate scientists to evaluate the scientific accuracy of an article by adding comments on the right-hand side of the screen. Everyone — especially journalists, writers, and other scientists — can learn from this pool of knowledge to improve their reporting or find resources on a topic.