Hypothes.is

Hypothesis is a web annotation tool - you can annotate any page and your comments are then public for others to see (or you can privately annotate stuff)

Data Ownership

Hypothes.is is an open source project run by a non-profitprofit. butThey consider all annotations made in public on their platform to be creative commons public domain so it seems like they're unlikely to try and do a runner with public data. However, I still have concerns aboutleaving dataall ownershipmy annotations in their silo (What if their service goes down and all my annotations disappear overnight?)

 

Annotating Archived Content

It's been pointed out in a couple of places that hypothes.is can be used to annotate data in the internet web archive but what about in my own archive?

Using via.hypothes.is with my own archivebox instance doesn't seem to work but it seems that both the official chrome plugin and the unofficial firefox plugin do work with archivebox if you click through to the single page  html you want to view before you activate them.

 

Active Hypothes.is Users

Tom Zylstra keeps a list of active and semi active h users