Community Feedback on Scholarly Content: Why it is important and why it should be preserved

The provision of community feedback on the exploration of science has evolved with the publication process. The February 2017 approval of open standards for web annotation provides the infrastructure for an interoperable collaborative annotation layer that will make conversations over scientific content ubiquitous and standard. Heather Staines and Maryann E. Martone explain how this community feedback was preserved in the form of annotations that support the FAIR data principles.