[annotator-dev] Image annotation

Fri Oct 10 21:34:47 UTC 2014

On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 11:50 AM, Jamie M Folsom <jfolsom at mit.edu> wrote:

> Questions that come to mind include:
> - Should this target Annotator 2.0? (I assume it should)
>

Definitely :)

> - Since others have already done a fair amount of work on this, including
> Rainer and Gergely, can we build on what they’ve done?
>

I sure hope so!

> - Can a single plugin serve “vanilla” embedded image annotation, and also
> Open Seadragon-enhanced images, or are those different animals? (I don’t
> know much about OS, which looks quite cool!)
>

Ditto.

> - What does data store support for image anchoring look like?
>

Hopefully as simple as the URI for the image plus a media fragment tacked
on the end, such as:  http://example.edu/images/image.jpg#xywh=0,0,100,100

On that last point, we have support in our data store for the schema
> modifications needed to support the Annotorious plugin (thanks to Rainer),
> but presumably, that would have to evolve.
>

If Annotorius supported Open Annotation (hint hint Rainer) then there
wouldn't need to be any modifications, one imagines.

It's the perfect use case for when interoperability really helps everyone.

Rob
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