On 30 March, Prof. Hilde de Weerdt, Dr Sunkyu Lee, and Dawn Zhuang delivered an IMMARKUS workshop on collecting, annotating, transcribing, and analyzing IIIF images as part of IIIF-Friday hosted by meemoo, the Flemish Institute for Archives.
The workshop provides a conceptual and hands-on introduction to integrating digital image annotation into research workflows. Participants will work with IMMARKUS (https://immarkus.xmarkus.org/), a semantic image annotation service designed by the presenters that supports assembling and organizing image collections with metadata, annotating specific regions, building custom data models, and linking related elements within and across images. IMMARKUS also offers AI-assisted region selection, multilingual transcription and translation, and a built-in knowledge graph for visualizing and querying annotations, relationships, and metadata.
Through hands-on exercises, participants will learn how to:
- collect and organize IIIF images and archival sources
- move between IMMARKUS and other IIIF viewers
- annotate image regions with or without AI assistance
- transcribe and translate text in images using integrated AI models across multiple languages
- create custom data models to structure and organize annotations
- store and manage metadata
- visualize, query, and export annotated data for further analysis
For more information, please visit the event page: https://meemoo.be/nl/vormingen-en-events/iiif-friday-13-immarkus-workshop
Workshop recording: