![]() There was a broad sentiment at the summit that for annotation to succeed in journalism at scale, journalists would have to become more involved in commenting and responding to comments on their articles, and Medium systematizes this by giving author control over what annotations appear on their articles publicly. Both Genius and Hypothesis have shown that expert annotation is a clear value add to news content.īy the time Stephen Levy of Medium took the stage, his platform’s slick annotation functionality had already been invoked more than once. However, this isn’t an issue for PolitiFact, where Hollyfield is more interested in using annotation to bring expert commentary to primary documents in the news, like for example, speeches and other artifacts from the 2016 election. In his experiments with annotation as a means of engagement, Carvin has simply not observed participation in great numbers. But it was not at all clear from the panel’s point of view that there is actually widespread demand for annotation among readers of mainstream media. Etim also made the interesting point that bottom page comments are a particularly poor experience on mobile and of course any emergent comment/annotation system will have to be optimal on phones and tablets and, perhaps, watches. There was much talk of trolling throughout the day and whether annotation systems could save us from the Dark Tetrad of personality that trolls bring to the Internet (Greg Barber of The Washington Post brought up a study using this phrase/concept in relation to trolling). What was clear from the panel is that comments are broken in more ways than one. Next up, Bassey Etim (New York Times), Amy Hollyfield (PolitiFact), and Andy Carvin (First Look Media) provided a sense of the landscape of annotation within the publishing world. This question hung over the proceedings for the rest of the day: What would the consequences be (for users? for publishers?) if a single proprietary service was to emerge as common annotation application? The good news for publishers is that in this vision, annotation would be a distributed feature, not something handled by a single site or provider. But we do want the ability to bring relevant insights, from Facebook and elsewhere, to every page on the Internet. ![]() For Schepers, and we here at hypothes.is agree with him, individual annotation services will fail to annotate the Internet such functionality must be part of the underlying infrastructure of the Web itself. In his presentation, Doug Schepers announced that the World Wide Web Consortium (w3c) had a dedicated working group for annotation and gave an impassioned presentation on the importance of open standards for web annotation. Home page for the w3c working group on web annotation.
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