Workflow for Annotating and Comparing IIIF resources using Altamira

This workflow enables researchers and members of the public to visually annotate images from various providers that support the International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF). It facilitates the comparison and integration of annotations across different image sources, allowing users to share their annotations for consultation, review, or collaborative editing.

The solution is particularly valuable in cases where images of a single artifact type are dispersed across multiple providers, and where a streamlined method for sharing annotations is preferred.

Fully compatible with all IIIF-compliant resources, the workflow integrates Altamira, a customized implementation of the Mirador viewer. Altamira has been specifically developed to support the preparation, management, preservation, sharing, and reuse of annotations in accordance with the Web Annotation Data Model.

Altamira is available as a service at the Archaeology Data Service: link

Implementation

This workflow's functionality relies on both existing IIIF resource sources and the integration of Altamira. Both are indispensable for its operation. Fortunately, these are already deployed across various platforms. If you intend to share your own IIIF resources or utilize a self-managed Altamira instance, please follow the steps detailed in IIIF Enablement and Visualization Workflow Using Altamira Viewer for Image Repositories.

Prerequisite

Altamira can be deployed independently by following IIIF Enablement and Visualization Workflow Using Altamira Viewer for Image Repositories, or users may utilize the version deployed as a service by the Archaeology Data Service.

Detailed documentation

Detailed documentation with images is available here!