Click any annotation to read it in the Hypothesis sidebar. Once you are logged in, you can even reply to an existing annotation.Īll annotations available in this page will be indicated by a yellow highlight color. If you are not logged in to Hypothesis, you can do it here or even create a new account. Upon opening the Hypthesis tools via the < button you see the notes previously added. How do you know? Look in the upper right corner a gray button with a < symbol. This page of this book is already set up to be annotated with Hypothesis. Additionally all public annotations by default are licensed Creative Commons CC0. Please note that Hypothesis is not a social network and does not collect any personally identified information except for an email address. In fact you will be able to log in or create an account directly from within this Pressbook. The entire sign-up process will take less than one minute. To participate in social annotation conversations, start by creating a free Hypothesis account. It adds an annotation layer to any public web page or document. Hypothes.is is a free, open-source social annotation technology regularly used by educators. If this is new to you, we can start right here with some practice annotation. With the open source platform Hypothesis, we all can add commentary, questions, additional resources to any public content on the web. Web annotation not only provides a similar functionality, but expands its capabilities by having it take place in an open, common space making it a social process. Can you think of your own everyday activities that might be considered annotation? Where do you see it in the world around you? Kalir and Garcia offer examples of every day acts such as charting a child’s growth on a doorway, adding notes to a family recipe card, even creating meme images, that all are acts of annotation. From the annotatio of Roman imperial law to the medieval gloss, annotation nowadays helps people to write computer code, evaluate chess games, and interpret rap lyrics.
Today, scientists’ annotation of the human genome and proteome for large-scale biomedical research relies upon techniques that are both similar to and also very different from linguists and historians who have translated, annotated, and digitally archived Babylonian and Assyrian clay tablets. Some of the most significant commentary about the Talmud, first written in the eleventh century, has been featured prominently as annotation in print editions since the early 1500s. Marginalia thrived in England during the sixteenth century, as studies of book culture during the rule of Elizabeth I and James I demonstrate.Annotated books were routinely exchanged among scholars and friends as “social activity” throughout the Victorian era. Making notes in printed works is a centuries old practice, the authors share some historical examples. And annotation aids learning, augmenting our intellect, cognition, and collaboration. Annotation expresses power, making civic life more robust and participatory. Annotation sparks conversation, making our dialogue – about art, religion, culture, politics, and research – more interactive. Annotation shares commentary, making both expert opinion and everyday perspective more transparent. 1 About Annotation (and an opportunity to practice) Marginalia flickr photo by Cat Sidh shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) licenseĪnnotation, the act of adding additional information as a note attached to a specific part of a published work (or simply highlighting key passages), is a familiar academic but also everyday practice.Īs described in Remi Kalir and Antero Garcia’s book, AnnotationĪnnotation provides information, making knowledge more accessible.