







Community notes over papers is another example of a new kind of annotation that goes far beyond merely a "mention" and can be easily incorporated into protocol powered research ecosystems like #ATScience
Sep 9, 2026 at 2:02 PM
open-community-notes/004-labeling at master · johnwarden/open-community-notes
Community Notes on AT Protocol. Contribute to johnwarden/open-community-notes development by creating an account on GitHub.
Bluenotes: Community Notes for ATProto
I'll briefly demonstrate Bluenotes, a fork of the Bluesky with Community Notes. Then I'll discuss a proposed "Open Community Notes" standard and lexicon for Community Notes on ATProto, and discuss challenges such as preserving contributor anonymity and defending against manipulation.

The Making of Community Notes—Asterisk
The team that built X’s Community Notes talks about their design process and the philosophy behind their approach to combatting false information on the platform.

NLnet; Nanoarguments
Scientific knowledge is currently scattered across papers, repositories, and disconnected platforms, with no structured way to trace how claims connect to evidence or how arguments develop. Nanoarguments builds a framework and tools for creating, browsing, and contributing to a global, federated graph of scientific discourse and evidence. Researchers and their communities can collaboratively structure claims, evidence chains, and discussion as nanopublications, which are small, cryptographically signed Linked Data snippets with precise provenance and authorship, published to a decentralized peer-to-peer network. The project builds upon the Nanodash interface to help users browse, edit, and aggregate discourse and evidence graphs, and integrates with dokieli to enable in-context authoring of nanopublications as inline annotations while reading or writing a document. A bidirectional ActivityPub connector bridges the nanopublication network and the fediverse, allowing discourse threads to start as social exchanges and crystallize into persistent, machine-readable evidence records. The project will be piloted with early adopter research groups in discourse and evidence modeling. All components will be released as open-source modules that other systems can build upon.
Steps Towards an Infrastructure for Scholarly Synthesis
Sharing, reusing, and synthesizing knowledge is central to the research process, both individually, and with others. These core functions are not supported by our formal scholarly publishing infrastructure: instead of the smooth functioning of functional infrastructure, researchers resort to laborious "hacks" and workarounds to "mine" publications for what they need, and struggle to efficiently share the resulting information with others. Information scientists have proposed an alternative infrastructure based on the more appropriately granular model of a discourse graph of claims, and evidence, along with key rhetorical relationships between them. However, despite significant technical progress on standards and platforms, the predominant infrastructure remains steadfastly document-based. Drawing from infrastructure studies, we locate the current infrastructural bottlenecks in the lack of local systems that integrate discourse-centric models to augment synthesis work, from which an infrastructure for synthesis can be grown. Through 3 years of research through design and field deployment in a distributed community of hypertext notebook users, we elaborate a design vision of what can and should be built in order to grow a discourse-centric synthesis infrastructure: a thriving "installed base" of researchers authoring local, shareable discourse graphs to improve synthesis work, enhance primary research and research training, and augment collaborative research. We discuss how this design vision -- and our empirical work -- contributes steps towards a new infrastructure for synthesis, and increases HCI's capacity to advance collective intelligence and solve infrastructure-level problems.

Steps Towards an Infrastructure for Scholarly Synthesis
Sharing, reusing, and synthesizing knowledge is central to the research process, both individually, and with others. These core functions are not supported by our formal scholarly publishing infrastructure: instead of the smooth functioning of functional infrastructure, researchers resort to laborious ”hacks” and workarounds to ”mine” publications for what they need, and struggle to efficiently share the resulting information with others. Information scientists have proposed an alternative infrastructure based on the more appropriately granular model of a discourse graph of claims, and evidence, along with key rhetorical relationships between them. However, despite significant technical progress on standards and platforms, the predominant infrastructure remains steadfastly document-based. Drawing from infrastructure studies, we locate the current infrastructural bottlenecks in the lack of local systems that integrate discourse-centric models to augment synthesis work, from which an infrastructure for synthesis can be grown. Through 3 years of research through design and field deployment in a distributed community of hypertext notebook users, we elaborate a design vision of what can and should be built in order to grow a discourse-centric synthesis infrastructure: a thriving “installed base” of researchers authoring local, shareable discourse graphs to improve synthesis work, enhance primary research and research training, and augment collaborative research. We discuss how this design vision — and our empirical work — contributes steps towards a new infrastructure for synthesis, and increases HCI’s capacity to advance collective intelligence and solve infrastructure-level problems.
open-community-notes/003-aids at master · johnwarden/open-community-notes
Community Notes on AT Protocol. Contribute to johnwarden/open-community-notes development by creating an account on GitHub.
From Social Network to Sense Making
+ the art of footnotes | Are.na
expanded to include margin annotations and other multi-channel approaches towards text, information and credit.
Metagov x Future of Science Seminar - Discourse Graphs with Matt Akamatsu
Curvenote Reader brings a better reading experience to half a million openRxiv preprints
Curvenote Reader is now live across half a million bioRxiv preprints - bringing inline citations, zoomable figures, and connected context directly into the reading flow. Find out how we modernized one of science's biggest preprint repositories without disrupting a single workflow.
Announcing "AT Scholarly Lexicons": A blueprint for decentralised scholarly communication using the AT Protocol - Marginalia
Mustard
A browser extension that lets you annotate any webpage with notes and share them with your Bluesky and/or GitHub followers.

A protocol for attributable modular research contribution - Matsuthoughts
I wrote this essay in response to Seemay Chou's call for essays on systemic bottlenecks to science. Structural change in scholarly communication practices i…
A community proposal for a `community.lexicon.download` or `community.lexicon.file` lexicon is open for discussion -- file sharing with multi-method distribution (PDS blobs, IPFS, BitTorrent). @nezumi.eurosky.social is seeking collaborators. Share your feedback on Discourse.
Purposal: General purpose File sharing / Download links lexicon?
discourse.atmosphere.community