Open annotation is the ability to freely contribute to online, usually web-based, content, such as documents, images and video. Open annotation as a concept has been embraced predominantly by scholars in the Digital Humanities, a group that has a long history of online collaboration.

1. open scholarship
2. open scholarship policy observatory
3. policy analysis

Original publication:Silk, Kimberly. "Open Annotation Tools." Open Scholarship Policy Observatory, 26 Jul. 2018, https://ospolicyobservatory.uvic.ca/open-annotation-tools/.

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