[annotator-dev] Image annotation

Sat Oct 11 12:50:06 UTC 2014

Dear all,

Here is a very short summary of what we have done in H's form of Annotator.

 * First, we have moved from the current annotation data format to one
closer to the OA model: instead of /ranges/, we have /targets//, /and
those /targets/ are described by /selectors.
 * /We have defined a bunch of selectors for text (again, the same ones
used in OA), and defined one (or two) selectors for describing image
fragments, as described by Annotorious
 * Extended the annotation anchoring mechanism, so that the available
anchoring algorithms can be shipped in plugins, and registered with the
code. When a target needs to be anchored, all the registered anchoring
algorithms are asked if they can handle it.
 * Also, we extended the system to (logically) separate anchors (as the
abstract information about where an annotation goes) from the highlight
(as the actual "physical" manifestation of an anchor, visible to the user).
 * We have extended the system to support different types of anchors and
different types of highlights. (And we have implemented the
corresponding types for image.)
 * We created an image annotation plugin for Annotator, which bridged
Annotorious with the framework in Annotator core.

Actually, most of this work is independent of Image annotations, but
considered in necessary, in order to do it the right way.

In the end, we never really deployed the image annotation code, because
Annotorious has a nasty habit of changing the DOM in various haphazard
ways, and one of our other libraries (d-t-m, used for fuzzy text
maching) was not quite up to the task of dealing with this, but we have
a fix for that in the pipe, too.

Now, this is all on our Annotator fork, and we plan to port it back to
upstream Annotator 2.0.

The latest plan to do so looks like this:
 * We will release the framework (for handling multiple types of
selectors, algorithms, anchor types, highlights, etc) as a separate
library, with glue code for various versions of Annotator (A1.2.x, A2.0,
our fork)
 * We will release separate libraries that contain the various pieces of
functionality which we implemented on top of this framework (fuzzy
anchoring for text, image anchoring, annotator running over pdf.js, etc.)

Does this look good to you all?

   Kristof

On 2014-10-10 20:24, Jamie M Folsom wrote:
> Hi Folks, 
>
> We have a developer working with us this fall who is interested in helping with image annotation, so I thought we’d reach out and see what work has and has not been done on that in the Annotator ecosystem. 
>
> Gergely mentioned back in May that there was some work done on h. We’d be glad to pitch in and work on a plugin that others could use, but I don’t want to duplicate effort if there’s something else underway.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Jamie
>
>
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