[annotator-dev] Image annotation

Sun Oct 12 08:03:32 UTC 2014

Hi Kristof,

there may be a way around some of the nastier DOM manipulations. The Annotorious components could be added as absolutely positioned elements at the end of the body. That's potentially less intrusive.

I did that initially, but it failed in cases where images are moved around via JS (typical scenario: image carousels). Hence the 'wrapping' that now occors. I think that browsers now issue 'DOM change' events, however, which could be used to reposition annotation overlays. So this may be worth a try. (Probably won't work in IE though ;-)

Cheers,
R

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Von: annotator-dev [annotator-dev-bounces at lists.okfn.org]" im Auftrag von "Kristof Csillag [csillag at hypothes.is]
Gesendet: Samstag, 11. Oktober 2014 14:50
An: annotator-dev at lists.okfn.org
Betreff: Re: [annotator-dev] Image annotation

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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