This article interrogates how digital text annotation tools and projects facilitate online engagement and virtual communities of practice. With the rise of the Web 2.0 movement and the proliferation of digital resources, annotation has evolved from an isolated practice to a collaborative one. This article unpacks the impact of this shift by providing an in-depth discussion of five web-based tools and two social reading projects. This article examines issues of design, usability, and applicability to pedagogical intervention as well as underscores how productive group dynamics can be fostered through digital, social annotation. 

1. open access
2. open scholarship
3. publishing
4. scholarly communication

Original publication information:

Originally published in KULA Vol. 3

Date: February 27,  2019

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/kula.49

License: (CC BY 4.0)

Original citation:

Seatter, Lindsey. “Towards Open Annotation: Examples and Experiments.” Beyond Open: Implementing Social Scholarship, special collection of KULA: knowledge creation, dissemination, and preservation studies, vol. 3, no. 1, 2019, http://doi.org/10.5334/kula.49. 17pp.