Contributive Research: Hypothes.is Implementation For Academic Research Purpose

Abstract

The web was originally conceived and developed to meet the demand for automatic information-sharing between scientists in universities and institutes around the world. At IRI, we want to go back to this vision and develop digital tools that enable the contributory construction of meaning, understanding and knowledge. In this article (and in this workshop) we propose to analyze the interest of the categorized contributive annotation model currently tested on three ongoing research projects. This tool has been developed on the basis of a modification of the hypothes.is platform inspired by the work of the W3C Open Annotation group. In particular we analyze three functions: the group dynamics and related problems inspired by the philosophy of G. Simondon (Hui and Halpin, 2012, [1]), the use of meta-categories for transindividuation, and the contributive publication of a glossary.