With somewhat depressing regularity I keep cycling back to things I was working on earlier but never quite get to work the way I wanted.

Stuck indoors and bored of passively reading information on the coronavirus (and more) when you could be doing something more constructive? GigaScience now has hypothes.is integration for collaborative annotation, and we would encourage readers to interact with our content more collaboratively.

In the previous post I sketched out a workflow to annotate articles using hypothes.is and aggregate those annotations.

I will be at ReCon 16 in Edinburgh (hashtag #ReCon_16), the second ReCon event I've attended (see Thoughts on ReCon 15: DOIs, GitHub, ORCID, altmetric, and transitive credit). For the hack day that follows I've put together some instructions for a way to glue together annotations made by multiple people using hypothes.is. It works by using IFTTT to read a user's annotation stream (i.e., the annotations they've made) and then post those to a

The last few days I've been re-reading articles about Ted Nelson's work (including ill-fated Project Xanadu), reading articles celebrating his work (brought together in the open access book "Intertwingled"), playing with Hypothes.is, and thinking about annotation and linking.

Over the weekend, out of the blue, Dan Whaley commented on an earlier blog post of mine (Altmetrics, Disqus, GBIF, JSTOR, and annotating biodiversity data. Dan is the project lead for hypothes.is, a tool to annotate web pages.