Image Annotation

A presentation by Kelly Marie Blanchat

What it Does

• Image annotation allows users to choose a section of an image to ‘highlight’ and associate with text.

• Think: Facebook & Flickr

• I am using it to translate hard-to-read text in letters, to help the user get the visual information from the scanned image, while also enabling content.

Who can use it

• Anyone! You can set up Image Annotation for just the administrator, give access to certain users, or everybody.

• Pros of Image Annotation: – INTUITIVE– Easy to use (intuitive!)– Makes you look like an expert web-designerQuestions: Will it work with LIGHTBOX? We’ll see…

How To #1:

• Make sure there is a folder within your chosen theme called ‘ items’– If not, simply create an ‘items’ folder before

moving to step 2.

– If you are undecided on your theme, simply copy the items folder into every theme so that you won’t have to back-track later.

How to #2:

• In WinSCP / Fetch / etc. follow the path of application views scripts items

• Copy the "show.php" file found in and move it to the items folder that you just created.

How to #3:

• Choose the ‘edit’ option for ‘show.php’• Paste in the following function:

<?php echo image_annotation_display_annotated_image_gallery_for_item();?>

How to #4:

• Save, Save, Save– The file path should be: themename items

show.php

Issues

• Don’t write too much! All the annotation text boxes are placed below the selected (‘highlighted’) area – if you select an area near the bottom of the image a scroll bar will pop up and make it impossible to read the text.

• I somehow lost my administrator view in Omeka. The Plug-in still works, it’s just annoying. (I probably tried to change something else in the ‘show.php’ file – don’t be a nerd and keep it how it is!