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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.”

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Today, Hypothes.is posted a 15 minute video (embedded below) where several experts share some of their perspectives (Why the interest in the topic? Biggest Challenges, Future Plans, etc.) on the topic of web annotation. The video was recorded at the recent W3C TPAC 2014 Conference in Santa Clara, CA.

Hypothes.is is an annotator, the tool designed to advance commenting and discussions on every piece of content on the Internet (scientific or non-scientific). From the point of view of academia, it might be seen as another tool to make science more open and to make scientific communication faster.

Mr. Waters, meanwhile, sketches out several broad topics of current emphasis for the scholarly-communications-and-information-technology program. He and his colleagues are keenly interested in the ability to annotate scholarship online, he says; Mellon has made serious investments in annotation tools and the development of open annotation standards by the university community and projects like Hypothes.is, which just received a two-year, $752,000 grant from the foundation to look into digital annotation in humanities and social-science scholarship.