What's happening with open annotation? Discoverability, engagement, community

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Authors and Corporations: Staines, Heather
In: Learned Publishing, 32, 2019, 2, p. 177-180
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Wiley
Media Type: Article, E-Article

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Physical Description: 177-180
ISSN: 0953-1513
1741-4857
DOI: 10.1002/leap.1207
published in: Learned Publishing
Language: English
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Collection: Wiley (CrossRef)
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<jats:sec><jats:label /><jats:p> <jats:boxed-text content-type="box" position="anchor"><jats:caption><jats:title>Key points</jats:title></jats:caption><jats:p> <jats:list list-type="bullet"> <jats:list-item><jats:p>Standards‐based annotation can be used anywhere on the web across HTML, PDF, EPUB, and data to make public, private, and group notes on top of the version of record.</jats:p></jats:list-item> <jats:list-item><jats:p>Publishers can host a branded and moderated annotation layer and determine whether they want it open to anyone or restricted to specific users.</jats:p></jats:list-item> <jats:list-item><jats:p>Annotations have unique persistent web addresses that make it possible to link to a paragraph, sentence, or word rather than a page‐level URL.</jats:p></jats:list-item> <jats:list-item><jats:p>Interoperable annotation will allow annotators using different annotation clients to interact with annotations made by others.</jats:p></jats:list-item> <jats:list-item><jats:p>Open annotation is already being used in peer review, in workflows, to indicate changes and updates, and to add context to content.</jats:p></jats:list-item> </jats:list></jats:p></jats:boxed-text></jats:p></jats:sec>