Hypothesis Awarded $2 Million of Funding from Mellon Foundation in New Multi-Year Grant

From a Hypothesis Announcement:

Hypothesis is pleased to announce that it has recently been awarded $2 million in new funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. This is our sixth grant from the Mellon Foundation, and we are grateful for their continued endorsement of our mission and work to scale the use of open, standards-based web annotation and the Hypothesis annotation tool suite in scholarship and research.
Specifically, the focus of this multi-year grant, Scaling Annotation in Scholarship and the Humanities, will be to support feature enhancements and program development for Hypothesis’ annotation software and services, with an emphasis on the arts and humanities. With the support of the Mellon Foundation, Hypothesis has made substantial progress in adding important features such as group functions and moderation, realizing a W3C standard for web annotation, building the Annotating All Knowledge Coalition to bring together major publishers and scholarly platforms around open annotation, and growing our user base in the arts and humanities through outreach in publishing and education. This new round of funding will enable us to capitalize on our previous work and current trends in scholarship, publishing and education to accelerate growth in annotation and execute our business strategy for long term sustainability.
“The web is a vital source of information for study and vigorous debate. In a flourishing democracy, these debates can explore a range of features from the provenance of the sources, their veracity, and the interpretations they represent or provoke,” said Donald J. Waters, Senior Program Officer for Scholarly Communication at the Mellon Foundation.

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