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Première différence, cependant : Hypothes.is est indépendante, open source, à but non lucratif et utilise les standards du W3C. Elle sera donc financée en partie par nous-mêmes et par des fonds publics. Le rachat de GoodReads par Amazon a démontré la nécessité de ce type d’argument : vos productions textuelles sont garanties d’être pérennes, parce que ce sont en partie vos dons qui assurent la viabilité de la plateforme.

Using reputation-modeling that privileges people who actually know about stuff, the system creates information trails, showing what research or news preceded the text in question, and what other work it led to afterwards. "This is collaborative research that blurs the line between pre- and post-publication," he says.

Obviously, the existence of such a system, as it is envisioned by the founders, would be a startling addition to human knowledge. And a very controversial one. Imagine reading an annotated NY Times, where the pros and cons of Paul Krugman's thoughts on the Euro could be argued by the world's great economists. Or your sister could annotate online recipes on Epicurious. Or a company's claims about their product's capabilities and value could be countered by disgruntled customers.

Maybe that is why there is now a renewed appetite for exploring ways of facilitating commenting across the Internet that give more control to individuals. Many of those interested in seeing that happen-- including start-ups, academics, libraries and early adopters-- came to San Francisco this week for the I Annotate conference. It was a discussion about discussion.

Hypothes.is aims to leave a digital trail of people's thought processes as they traipse across the Web. At the "I Annotate" conference this April, a wide swath of the digital publishing community will take the next steps toward building this infrastructure.

Our goal is to realize a vision long held by the pioneers of the web, where we all create, consume, and collaborate interchangeably and easily.

"Hypothes.is is not a tool to tell people whether something is true or not-- it's a tool to let people have their input and, by having more information, they can decide for themselves whether it is true or false," says Leeds.

Facts and fact checking have a long history but in a world where the speed and volume of information are rapidly increasing how do we separate fact from fiction?

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Perhaps the most ambitious attempt to use the crowd to purge the internet of falsehoods is a tool called Hypothes.is, which is due to launch next year.