Session 3: Working with your images

Aquiles Alencar-Brayner

@AquilesBrayner

Aquiles.alencarbrayner@bl.uk

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Libraries and Archives: image sharing and annotation

British Library:

BL Webpage: www.bl.uk/manuscript

https://imagesonline.bl.uk

Codex Sinaiticus

Comparing texts: Shakespeare in Quarto

Georeferencing Maps

Thematic Webpages: Europeana 1914 – 1918

Old Maps Online

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GLAM Social Media:

Wikimedia Commons

Pinterest

Google Maps

Flickr

HistoryPin

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Storing and sharing your own images

Flickr

Tumblr

Twitpic

Google+ (Picasa)

Zoom.it (enhanced viewer for images on the internet)

Dropbox

Luna Imaging (proprietary software widely used by US Libraries and archives)

e.g. John Carter Brown: Early American Images

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Advancing research: image sharing, annotation & transcription

Saphari (Semi-Automatic PHoto Annotation and Recognition Interface) - http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/saphari/ (University of Maryland)

iiif (International Image Interoperability Framework) – Stanford University / BL / BnF and others

National Gallery (IIPImage software) – more info: research.ng-london.org.uk

Transcription projects: Notes from Nature

Transcribe Bentham

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Thank you! Questions?