Hi Leif,
You might take a look at TILE (http://tileproject.org), which is
developing a fairly simple, schema-agnostic software for linking text
with image of text (both semi-automated and manual), and image
annotation. It's modular and plug-in-able, so potentially you could
take it and modify as needed without having to build your own
annotator from scratch :-) I gave a keynote on the TILE project at
the 2009 DHSI at UVic, we've developed an alpha version since then but
this presentation outlines our concerns, which would seem to be
similar to your concerns, and a brief history of other tools:
http://dhsi.org/blog/archives/50
HTH,
Dot
On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 3:00 PM, Leif Isaksen <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Dear all
>
> As part of the RTISAD Project
> (http://www.southampton.ac.uk/archaeology/acrg/acrg_research_DEDEFI.html),
> which is applying Reflectance Transformation Imaging technologies to
> ancient resources, we would like to introduce the ability to annotate
> the RTI dataset. This will be structured so that it is possible to
> associate such annotations with the precise viewer settings (light
> angle, filters applied, etc.) at the time when the annotaiton was
> made. In this way it will be possible to bookmark these settings and
> enable subsequent viewers to identify the process of interpretation.
> For example, how a letter is seen when lit from a certain angle. The
> output will be TEI-compliant XML with embedded links to the RTI
> datasets, which in turn will be imported into other workflows/VREs.
>
> As a result it would be very helpful to know how researchers work with
> and reference images of text. Would it be sufficient simply to provide
> annotations in the form of line number, point location, line, or
> polygon and their rotation relative to the horizontal? Is there
> additional functionality which would increase its utility? We are keen
> not to replicate existing work on image annotation and to provide an
> annotation approach that is consistent with TEI.
>
> Best wishes
>
> Leif
>
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