Omeka: Collaborative Image Annotation

Omeka is a free, flexible, and open source web-publishing platform for the display of library, museum, archives, and scholarly collections and exhibitions. We use a heavily modified install to demonstrate the possibilities for information sharing in various research and teamwork applications. In particular Omeka seems well-suited to first-sweep spatial data analysis. Ideally researchers would review a map or image resource together (over distance, potentially) before breaking it down for detailed evaluation or analysis in GIS.

The way Omeka works is simple: collaborators are given accounts, which are tied to alterations and notes they make to images (as well as the associated metadata). We also have a couple of examples of alternative uses of the application. This website serves as a working demo.

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    Example Alternative Application

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    One of the main reasons we pioneered use of this tool in this manner was to show its versatility. Evaluation, exploration and translation of map materials is a way researchers might use Omeka, but you could also use it for something like website design review. Unfortunately it's only annotation, a truly 'wiki' image evaluation tool would allow…
  • São Tomé City "downtown"

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    São Tomé City Image Set

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    High-resolution maps (images) of of São Tomé city proper. This item set allows for annotation at a very detailed level and can be used for a variety of applications, as demonstrated.

    To contribute or modify notes on the image scroll down to the bottom left corner and hit the "add annotation" - then scroll back up to the top (your annotation…
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