What is hypothes.is?¶

Hypothes.is is an awesome, game-changing system that lets you add annotations to virtually any Web page or PDF document. It’s utterly permissionless - the hypothes.is service is completely client-side, so you can add and view annotations on any content to which you have access. This opens up a vast array of opportunities to attach free-text information as well as relevant metadata to the scholarly literature, and these opportunities are just beginning to be explored.

Scientists are already building structured annotations of scientific literature.
Hypothes.is has helped nucleate a coalition of scholarly publishers to explore and support the uses of annotation, broadly writ, for transforming scholarship by “enabling personal note taking, peer review, copy editing, post publication discussion, journal clubs, classroom uses, automated classification, deep linking, and much more.”
The service supports both public annotations and private “group” annotations, so annotation authors can choose how widely they want to broadcast the annotations.
hypothes.is is working with the Web Annotation Working Group and intends to be and remain standards compliant.

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