Digital Discourses: Web Image Annotations - Niqui O'Neill

 Web Annotations: Lowering barriers to entry 

This presentation will discuss two open source tools for creating and using annotations on images. One of these tools allows users to create annotations without requiring institutional resources or an installed annotation server. The second tool is a JavaScript library for displaying and using annotations. The library allows for the use of annotations for display and storytelling purposes. This rich display of annotations demonstrates the reuse value of annotations and provides the opportunity for new forms of scholarly output. This presentation will introduce annotations and IIIF (for which the tools are optimized), demonstrate the low barrier of entry to using the tools, challenges around creating and using annotations from multiple data models, potential use cases, future development opportunities, and issues of using annotations as scholarly output.