If you don't see any images on this page, try refreshing it.
This is page is a springboard for ideas about how mapped image tagging can be used as a curatorial tool, particulary in the context of libraries, archives, or museums. I've done a little bit of tweaking to a Drupal module called 'image annotate' to make this basic demo. I'm not going to discuss the techinical details here, instead I'll be writing a blog post about how the whole thing works with hopes that more knowledgeable folks will contribute to the code base that makes these effects possible (and stable). If you wish to comment, please do so on that blog post. I think that this kind of interface is a great way to link real-world information spaces to digital spaces. I'm a visual learner, and I'd argue that the proliferation of graphic user interfaces in contemporary culture is making this a more common learning style. As you scroll down the page, move your cursor over the images and find the attached notes. The notes are linked to further information about that part of the photograph.
Currently this is configured so that the author does the tagging, so you won't be able to add your own tags to the images. An enhanced and improved version would allow you to do that. The tags also genarate a series of comments at the bottom of the post that I may remove from the view.
Below is an example of the image annotation describing previously mapped information (no pun intended). Think of the opportunities this offers an author to hyperlink found infographics to references of their choosing. A map is the most obvious example, but get creative... there's no end to the educational remixing/curatorial opportunities here.
The clearest digital-physical bridging opportunity this offers is linking information object displays to either catalog records or full digital content. Libraries have been leveraging this same technology on Flickr and Facebook by photographing their book displays and linking to library catalog records. That is just the beginning, once we plug this in to our own sites we can leave content containers like books behind. In this case I've linked each of these images to WorldCat, LibraryThing, and Amazon.
Why wait until information has been put into books or mapped visually, why not create context from its original source? Typically libraries, archives, and museums have been home to content authored by other non-staff folks. Why should we be limited this way when publishing tools like the one I'm demonstrating are freely available to anyone? I took this photo of fruit trees in my yard, the notes link to things you could know or do with the fruit from four different trees.
If you don't see any images on this page, try refreshing it.
This is page is a springboard for ideas about how mapped image tagging can be used as a curatorial tool, particulary in the context of libraries, archives, or museums. I've done a little bit of tweaking to a Drupal module called 'image annotate' to make this basic demo. I'm not going to discuss the techinical details here, instead I'll be writing a blog post about how the whole thing works with hopes that more knowledgeable folks will contribute to the code base that makes these effects possible (and stable). If you wish to comment, please do so on that blog post. I think that this kind of interface is a great way to link real-world information spaces to digital spaces. I'm a visual learner, and I'd argue that the proliferation of graphic user interfaces in contemporary culture is making this a more common learning style. As you scroll down the page, move your cursor over the images and find the attached notes. The notes are linked to further information about that part of the photograph.
Currently this is configured so that the author does the tagging, so you won't be able to add your own tags to the images. An enhanced and improved version would allow you to do that. The tags also genarate a series of comments at the bottom of the post that I may remove from the view.
Below is an example of the image annotation describing previously mapped information (no pun intended). Think of the opportunities this offers an author to hyperlink found infographics to references of their choosing. A map is the most obvious example, but get creative... there's no end to the educational remixing/curatorial opportunities here.
The clearest digital-physical bridging opportunity this offers is linking information object displays to either catalog records or full digital content. Libraries have been leveraging this same technology on Flickr and Facebook by photographing their book displays and linking to library catalog records. That is just the beginning, once we plug this in to our own sites we can leave content containers like books behind. In this case I've linked each of these images to WorldCat, LibraryThing, and Amazon.
Why wait until information has been put into books or mapped visually, why not create context from its original source? Typically libraries, archives, and museums have been home to content authored by other non-staff folks. Why should we be limited this way when publishing tools like the one I'm demonstrating are freely available to anyone? I took this photo of fruit trees in my yard, the notes link to things you could know or do with the fruit from four different trees.