9 Matching Annotations
  1. Jan 2024
    1. what we're not trying to do when people hear the words browser and annotation um often immediately their mind just jumps to like here's a commenting section for the web and we really don't want to have this 00:09:30 one big commenting section there's a lot of examples i think of like large platforms with commenting and in the best cases it requires just an immense amount of work to even make it usable personally in my 00:09:44 own opinion i think like when a community is overly broad the commentary becomes less useful and less thoughtful so this is a case i think where having some decentralization 00:09:56 would be very helpful and it lets communities and groups self-organize and self-moderate at an appropriate scale for them

      Good point - small groups of comments on personal blogs can be incredibly insightful, but contrast that with Youtube comments on popular videos where the first comments you see are usually just funny remarks. There are too many in that case with not enough flexibility in seeing, replying to, or organizing all comments (Reddit does better at this but still is not ideal).

    1. Before I would just hand out the reading and say do it, and then stare at them in discussion 00:16:54 or check to see if the [iClicker 0:16:55] was measuring whether they had successfully done the reading." But you don't know they've done it, but you not only know that they've done it, but you can look deep into how they're doing it, how they're interacting with the text, how they're interacting with each other. I think this is going to be a huge space for learning analytics

      Teachers used to tell students to read and annotate, but that's it, they can't see if annotations were done. Now they can since annotations are available and even more so, the student annotations can be used for data/learning analytics to better understand e.g. the comprehensibility of the content (he thinks it will open new fields of literacy).

    2. 16:45 - teachers used to tell students to read and annotate, but that's it, they can't see if annotations were done. Now they can since annotations are available and even more so, the student annotations can be used for data/learning analytics to better understand e.g. the comprehensibility of the content (he thinks it will open new fields of literacy).

    1. annotations against PDFs or EPUBs with your Hypothes.is account, are discoverable on that PDF or EPUB regardless of its location (Background)

      I know PDFs have a unique identifier that doesn't change if the PDF is modified (unlike MD5 hash), but I didn't think EPUB had a similar solution and the posted link doesn't mentioned EPUB. Is this accurate and if so, how does it work?

  2. Sep 2023
    1. It’s possible for two different PDFs to contain the same identifier, or for two PDFs without identifiers to contain the same first 1024 bytes. But in practice the fingerprint is likely to be unique almost always.

      Has this been tested, beyond just considering that a set of 1024 bytes has a huge number of possibilities? I am not familiar with the PDF structure but imagine that the first kilobyte can't be uniformly random in distribution and am wondering if more would be necessary (looking to implement something similar here: https://github.com/koreader/koreader/issues/10892).

  3. Apr 2023
    1. If we can identify and track all these as a family of same resources, we’ll do our best to anchor annotations to any member of the family

      But isn't this still not the case for local HTML files (or epubs)? This post discusses how an archived local pdf can use the same annotations as an online version with a URL.But as far as I know, Hypothesis doesn't support local html files taken from a URL (with, for example, the SingleFile extension) in the first place, let alone sync the annotations between a local html page and url web version. This would be really nice for html, pdf, and epub for a more bulletproof archive system including your annotations.

  4. Jan 2023
    1. I'm copying @kael seeing if I can follow mrcolbyrussell since he has some intriguing comments, but then again I don't know how tag actions work at all...

    1. I strongly dislike the parent-child-sibling(-friend) vocabulary Excalibrain introduces though, as it implies an order of creation. Parents exist first, children from parents.

      I'm curious what terms Ton uses instead of 'parent' and 'child' then - I agree with his idea that parentage implies order of creation but am unsure of a better alternative.