Founder Dan Whaley Tax ID no. 45-2677817 | Type 501(c)(3) Registration no. C3389843 | |
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Founded July 1, 2011 (2011-07-01) Location 2261 Market St #632, San Francisco, CA 94114 | ||
Hypothes.is is a 501(c) open-source software project that aims to collect comments about statements made in any web-accessible content, and filter and rank those comments to assess each statement's credibility. It has been summarized as "a peer review layer for the entire Internet."
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As of March 2016, Hypothes.is is the 447,510th most popular site on the Internet according to Alexa.com.
Concept
The project is to write software and establish a system which will allow annotation of web pages, using comments contributed by individuals and a reputation system for rating the comments. The plan is that the comments will be stored in the Internet Archive. Normal use is planned to be with a browser plug-in, and the plan is that links to specific comments will also be viewable without needing a plug-in.
People
The project is led by Dan Whaley, co-founder of GetThere, which was one of the first online travel booking systems in 1995. Its advisors include John Perry Barlow, Charles Bazerman, Philip Bourne and Brewster Kahle.
Project
A Kickstarter drive to raise $100,000 to fund a working prototype narrowly reached its goal on November 13, 2011. The effort is organized as a non-profit. It has received financial support from the Shuttleworth Foundation, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Helmsley Trust, the Knight Foundation and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
In December 2015, Hypothes.is was a founding member of a coalition of scholarly publishers, platforms, libraries, and technology organizations to create an open, interoperable annotation layer over their content.