An illustrated taxonomy of annotation types – Hypothesis
I’m often asked: “What does the Hypothes.is software do?” The elevator pitch is easy. “Visit a web page, then select some text and annotate with comments or tags. You’ll see those annotations when you return to the page, and so will other Hypothesis users.” As a general proposition that seems to make sense to almost everyone. Then comes the follow-up question: “Why would I do that?” That’s harder because the answer is: “It depends.” There are several types of Hypothes.is annotations, and many patterns for using them. In this post I’ll present a taxonomy of annotation types. In a follow-up post I’ll explore some patterns of use.