Dear all,
Over the past few months we have been working on further improvements of our image annotation service IMMARKUS (available at immarkus.xmarkus.org). IMMARKUS now supports IIIF imports: this means that you can build collections of (and annotate) high-quality zoomable images of any content (drawings, paintings, maps, manuscripts, archival documents, printed books etc) from libraries, museums, or private github and other online collections on the fly. You can combine these, also with your own local image collections.
We have been testing and would like to ensure that collections that researchers in East Asian Studies prefer to use are set up to allow for the full use of their data: images and all metadata. Please send us your favorite online IIIF image collections or collections you would like to work with in the future. We will then compile these into a list of favorite collections in East Asian Studies on our wiki pages, noting what access they provide.
Some of the issues you may run into because image collections were not correctly set up for IIIF are already listed on our wiki (https://github.com/…/Troubleshooting-IIIF-Manifest-Imports). We expect to publish a full update of our wiki pages by the end of the month, and will add favorite collections as they come in.
I have added some images below that show how custom collections can be built with IMMARKUS from major collections in the field: the Library of Congress, the National Palace Museum, the Harvard-Yenching Library, the UC Berkeley digital collections, the Bibliothèque National de France (Gallica), etc.
I also added a preview of what is forthcoming in our next major update: annotation with AI to improve the selection of image elements in the annotation module.
We will be showing and discussing IMMARKUS and other annotation and analysis services at the AAS (https://asianstudies.confex.com/…/meetinga…/Session/8265 Sunday morning slot though… ). Hope to see you there.
We always welcome proposals for collaboration.
With txs to Dawn Zhuang, Lee Sunkyu, Brent Ho, and Rainer Simon.
