Digital Annotation: Hypothes.is Receives $752,000 Award From Mellon Foundation

A new blog post by Peter Brantley from hypothes.is informs all of us that the collaborative digital annotation project has just been awarded $752,000 by the Mellon Foundation to, “investigate the use of annotation in humanities and social science scholarship over a two year period.”
Brantley writes:

This grant was established to address potential impediments in the arts and humanities which could retard the adoption of open standards. These barriers range from the prevalence of more tradition-bound forms of communication and publishing; the absence of pervasive experimentation with network-based models of sharing and knowledge extraction; the difficulties of automating description for arts and disciplines of practice; and the reliance on information dense media such as images, audio, and video. Nonetheless, we believe that with concerted work among our partners, alongside groups making steady progress in the annotation community, we can unite useful threads, bringing the arts and humanities to a point where self-sustaining interest in annotation can be reached.

The blog post continues with examples of how Hypoethes.is is working with partners to serve “traditional scholarship” (incl. Project Muse and Michigan Publishing), “scholarship in transition” (incl. MLA Commons), and “new scholarship” (incl. Project Scalar).
Read the Complete Blog Post

Additional Materials About Hypothes.is and Digital Annotation

• We Recently Posted that the New Issue of The Journal of Electronic Publishing (from Michigan Publishing) Now Includes Article Annotation Powered by Hypothes.is

• USC-Spawned [Project] Scalar Platform Enables Digital Publishers to Go Beyond the Book

• Video of Presentations from iAnnotate 2014 Available Here
  April 2014

• Agenda and Other Materials From iAnnotate 2014 Conference
  Took place San Francisco; April 3-April 6, 2014.

• Video of Presentations from W3C Web Annotations Workshop
  April 2014.

• Video of Presentations from iAnnotate 2014 Available Here
  April 2014.

• Video of Presentations from iAnnotate 2013 and Other Events

• Audio Interview and Video Presentation: Peter Brantley Discusses Hypothes.is and the Annotated Web
  October 9, 2013.

• Peter Brantley is the New Director of Scholarly Communications at Hypothes.is
  January 2013.

• Hypothes.is Press Coverage, Interviews, Etc. 

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