As a user, I want to browse all sites that have annotations

[toppsdown]

Hey guys, just learned about this project and I'm very excited by it. One thing I would like as a user is to be able to find websites that are annotated. As a secondary feature, I feel that the value of annotation is correlated to the density of conversation, so I would like a map as to where conversations are taking place; perhaps a heatmap or a ranking system of conversation activity.

Thanks!

[segdeha]

Hi @toppy42! We haven't spent a lot of time on discoverability yet. I agree that being able to find heavily annotated sites would be useful.

Can you say more about the heat map idea? Do you mean, literally, a geographical map of annotation activity?

[toppsdown]

Nah I don't think a geographical map would make much sense. I'm more imagining a list of all sites (ever annotated on) ranked by their level of activity.

So to recap: v1: A list of all sites that have any annotation at all v2: Make list sortable by level of activity on those sites

Other ideas (sorry for brainstorm vomiting):

1. Being able to select a site and see what pages on the site have been annotated
2. Scope the list to pages rather than entire sites
3. Scope the list to a group so that your community could transparently see the community's activity
4. Categorize sites so that users can filter by type: eg. I want to see all political sites that have annotation

[greebie]

I'm not sure if this is the same thing, but I have thought that some kind of analytics package for hypothesis results would be an amazing thing.

For an open source-ish project like this, I'd love to see what the community can do with annotations. Not every idea for a visualization will have traction beyond a "hey that's neat!" But some ideas may be worthy of greater consideration for hypothesis as a whole.

On the other hand, I think that analytics-oriented projects are quite expensive to maintain and need to be well thought out before-hand. Any interest in just seeing what can be done with the api currently in a mashup or something like that? Maybe as a notebook tutorial or something like that.

Ryan. . .

On Fri, Apr 14, 2017 at 9:52 AM, Ethan Puzarne [email protected] wrote:

Nah I don't think a geographical map would make much sense. I'm more imagining a list of all sites (ever annotated on) ranked by their level of activity.

So to recap: v1: A list of all sites that have any annotation at all v2: Make list sortable by level of activity on those sites

Other ideas:

Scope the list to specific pages rather than entire sites 2.

Scope the list to a group so that your specific community could transparently see

As an additional feature, it would be awesome to categorize those sites so I could say "I want to see all political sites that have annotation"

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[toppsdown]

@greebie I'm not sure I follow your thoughts on an analytics package. Though I think at it's core we we're both looking for an aggregation API

[ajpeddakotla]

@greebie I think exploring this is a great idea. We definitely have analytics on our roadmap for the future, but it will take us some time to get to it. I do worry about the cost to maintain an analytics project though, but am definitely open to hearing ideas on simple queries that we can do with the api currently.

[klemay]

From Chrome web store:

While I know this extension for some time now, I always have missed a particular option. I am missing ome kind of website or source, which outlines where users annotate most websites... If something like this can be done, it would be great indeed.