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Goal: Add image + area annotations to global annotation stores
a) Add area annotations [AA] for PDFs to Hypothesis
b) Help Zotero users share their AAs to Hypothesis

Stretch:
c) Make library that works w/ new tools (e.g.: stencila, anot8)
d) Integrate simple document clustering (URLs; DOIs; fatcat=unpaywall+IA+)

Spec

Following the Zotero design in Zotero 6

• 1. Add AA to Hypothesis’s pdf reader

  • show both AA and text annotations together

  • Have clients other than Z.6 pdf-reader done this? files.zotero.net?

• 2. Add “publish to Hypothes.is:” to Z-reader

  • add Hyp fingerprinting to Zotero; use Hyp API call to publish

  • could be a Z plugin

• 3. Support global sharing

  • Support AAs in Hypothesis + other Open Annotation repositories

  • Check that ‘default public’ annotations and fingerprint sharing work,

    for PDFs served locally or by other sites (may need clustering to work well)

Needs

• 6 months focused time by an annotation maven w/ js + pdf experience

• Support network w/ Zotero + Hypothesis experts (API quirks, formulating designs as PRs or plugins, getting design review)

  • Notes of support: Dan Whaley (Hyp), ? (Zot)

Related work

Proposals

• Add Zotero plugin for this:

  • Implement 2. above if hard to fit into core

  • “find Hypothes.is notes” in Z-reader

• Related past projects:

  • pdf.js-hypothes.is (2015) and chrome extension

• Zotero users asking for various features

  • asking for a web annotation tool matching the pdf-reader

  • inviting general integration w/ other notetaking tools (w/ long context)

• Document clustering as a service

  • fatcat.wiki and other sources of “document clusters” (sets of URLs and content hashes that are versions of the same doc), for aggregating notes
    

Discussions

• Getting annotations from a parent via Zotero API

• Text annotations for PDFs w/ hypothesis

• anot8.org tutorial?