notes on annotation tools and discussions

The leading tool is Hypothesis

Audrey Watters is quite an open leaning person, yet has deployed a tool to prohibit usage on her site.

There are many good arguments that I have been wrestling with, particularly around the idea of prohibiting annotation as analogous to prohibiting me writing in the margins of my books.

But Mike Caufield has thought it through a little more and suggested the right metaphor - I am not annotating the original master manuscript of the book, I am annotating my copy.

An Annotation conference, and agenda, which had a number of sessions that addressed opting in or out, annotation in education; and also unearthed some other tools https://paperhive.org/ and http://www.textthresher.org/

There is also https://www.lumioapp.com/