@JakeHartnell@Hypothes.is

Web Annotation

A long time ago...

Tim Berners-Lee http://www.w3.org/History/1989/proposal.html

One must also be able to annotate links, as well as nodes, ...”

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Over 20 years later, work is being done to add this

feature back into the web.

What is/are web annotation(s)?

Traditional annotations are marginalia, errata, and highlights in printed books, maps, picture, and other physical media.

Web annotations are an attempt to recreate and extend that functionality as a new layer of interactivity and linking on top of the Web.

It will allow anyone to annotate anything anywhere, be it a web page, epub, PDF, image, video, audio stream, or data in raw or visualized form.

Web annotations can be: ● Linked● Shared between services● Tracked back to their origins● Searched and discovered● Stored wherever the author wishes.

The vision is for a decentralized and open annotation infrastructure.

The opposite of this:

© Lindsay Grime

Why web annotation is cool in one sentence: When visiting a web page, you will not be limited to see what the publisher of that page wants you to see, but can also explore what others would like to show you in that context.

Demo time:http://online.wsj.com/articles/climate-science-is-not-settled-1411143565

https://hypothes.is/roadmap/ details what features we’re working on next:

● Groups: our most requested feature.● Moderation: tools for ensuring high quality discussion.● Image Annotation: ● Copy Editing Workflows:● Semantic Tagging● And more!

See Roadmap/GitHub for a more extensive list.

Want to get involved? Want to build your own application or content that

utilizes a layer over the web?

Join the community(Below: A partial list of some of our partners)

Checkout -> http://annotatorjs.org/

http://annotorious.github.io/index.html

http://www.openvideoannotation.org/

Annotate The Web.

We launch October 27th!

Use Case: Harvard X

Email: JakeHartnell@hypothes.is

Thanks!