Hypothes.is brings community peer review to The Internet. It is a web application which enables rich annotation of web content. The project acts as a community aggregator for annotations and identity provider¹ for annotators. It also serves embed code for an annotation agent designed with modern web browsers in mind.

See INSTALL.rst for installation instructions. Platform specific instructions can be found in the install documents as well.

Installation has, hopefully, gone smoothly. If you ran into any problems, be sure to seek help on IRC or the mailing list. To run the server, simply use the run command:

$ ./run

This command will start the server on port 5000 (https://0.0.0.0:5000), reload the application whenever changes are made to the source code, and restart it should it crash for some reason.

The project builds heavily on components developed for the Annotator Project and is structured to encourage upstream contribution where possible. However, work is required to make Annotator more extensible in order to facilitate contribution.

Additionally, work is underway to support the data model described by the Open Annotation Core specification document.

See the project wiki for the roadmap and additional information and join us in #hypothes.is on freenode for discussion.

Those wishing to contribute to the project should also subscribe to the development mailing list and read about contributing. Then consider getting started on one of the issues that are ready for work by clicking on the badge below. Issues tagged with the label 'cake' are ideal for new contributors.

To build the Chrome extension, follow the installation instructions. Then, run the following command at the prompt:

$ ./bin/hypothesis extension development.ini http://localhost:5000/app

If you are managing your virtual environment yourself, the script may not be located in the bin directory, but should be available in your path when the virtual environment is activated.

The third argument is the base URL for the application. An optional, fourth argument may be passed to override the URL prefix used for static assets.

Hypothes.is is released under the 2-Clause BSD License, sometimes referred to as the "Simplified BSD License" or the "FreeBSD License". Some third-party components are included. They are subject to their own licenses. All of the license information can be found in the included LICENSE file.