Annotate the web: four ways to mark up web content

Authors

Robin Camille Davis, CUNY John Jay CollegeFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2-2016

Abstract

Web annotation has been a pipe dream almost since the birth of the Internet itself. Commenting in the margins of a text itself is so simple for paper and print, yet replicating the experience online remains elusive. In this article, I examine four tools for private or public web annotation. Hypothesis and Genius offer users a shareable way to annotate webpages line by line and start conversations in the margins. Pinboard and Evernote allow users to organize and save web documents and add private annotations.

Comments

This work was originally published in Behavioral & Social Sciences Librarian.