This page will introduce you to the Hypothesis plugin, and walk you through steps for setting it up on your computer. We will use this in coming weeks to carry out a more conversational mode of annotation on certain texts, where the margins of chosen documents can become a social space for responding to and expanding on the notes of your peers.
Steps
If you don't have the Google Chrome browser, you'll need to download it.
Open up this page in your Google Chrome and follow along the steps in the video (6min).
Background imagery from the exhibition Neven Lochhead: From the vibe out (2021)
Background imagery from the exhibition Neven Lochhead: From the vibe out (2021)
Click the link below to join the 'Fieldnotes (Shadow Guild)' Hypothesis private group I've created for our project: https://hypothes.is/groups/GNiXyJpk/fieldnotes
From the main page for Shadow Library #1, navigate to the individual PDF pages, marked with this icon 📃 where you can find readings embedded as PDFs, and where you can start annotating alongside your peers.
Some reminders and troubleshooting tips
Make sure when you are publishing your annotations with Hypothesis that you have the 'Fieldnotes (Shadow Guild)' group selected as your destination instead of 'Public'.
Please try to highlight word clusters of more than three words in your annotations. If you choose just one general word like 'art' to comment on / annotate, when you visit the page again another time, your annotation might not tether itself to the right ‘art’ word, but instead another moment when ‘art’ appears in the PDF... This is an interesting error but may not very helpful!
Sometimes it takes a bit of time for Hypothesis to find and tether the annotations made previously in a PDF. When it can’t do so, it place these untethered annotations in an 'Orphans' tab. This means you might not find the annotations you or your peers made in a previous sessions - but don't panic! To re-tether these annotations to the texts that they refer to, you just need scroll down and through the full PDF on the given page. This will ‘expose’ each page to the searching Hypothesis plugin. After that, activate and deactivate the plugin by clicking the 'H' icon in the top of your browser. This will effectively re-link the 'Orphaned' annotations to the original text.
Having trouble with this? Feel free to email me at [email protected] and I can assist you.