Experimental Publishing Compendium

tool

Hypothesis

Description

Browser-based tool for making annotations on web pages. Can be integrated with other tools / platforms, functions as an overlay on existing content (so the annotation source can live anywhere on the web).

Developer

Annotation Unlimited, PBC

Software license

BSD-2-Clause License

Software language(s)

Python

Project page

https://web.hypothes.is/

Code repository

https://github.com/hypothesis/h

Import / ingest formats

Clipboard (copy & paste)

Output formats

HTML, CSV, txt

Platform status

actively maintained : last GitHub commit on 2025-05-30

Accompanying video

Books

Annotation

2021, Remi H. Kalir and Antero Garcia

Ecological Rewriting: Situated Engagements with The Chernobyl Herbarium

2023, Gabriela Méndez Cota

Ecological Rewriting: Situated Engagements with The Chernobyl Herbarium is the first book in the Combinatorial Books: Gathering...

Practices

Annotating

Annotations, notes scribbled in the margins or digitally overlain, spin out from a source text, adding layers of meaning, interpretations,...

Reviewing

Evaluation of research by the scholarly community is essential to conducting and publishing research. In response to changing publication formats...

Rewriting

Rewriting involves the practice of re-envisioning an already existing text without (necessarily) intervening into the original source text. It...