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by walterbell 4342 days ago
W3C is tackling the compatibility issue.

http://www.w3.org/2014/04/annotation/

https://hypothes.is/blog/peer-review-annotation/

1 comments

Listen to Walter, you don't want to be an island of comments in this case. Following annotation standards will allow this content to be gathered and reused elsewhere, for things like fact extraction, sentiment analysis, meta-discussion, +++, it will also allow others to immortalise your content if you happen to fail.

On the other hand, maybe that's exactly what you don't want. My personal pet peeve is comments on scientific papers, where openness of this content is not only desired, it's crucial. Your situation might be different.