IIIF for Educators

Storiiies Lab Activity: The World from the Perspective of the Global South

🖥️ Activity

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1. Click the  Edit story  button [please do not edit the title card information!] 
2. Zoom to any detail of the image you would like to annotate
3. Click  Add new (+) 
4. Each student add 1 annotation to a detail of the image.
5. Type in your annotation in the following format [with ALL of these elements]:

• • Title [make sure to capitalize]
  • [hit return twice for a line space]
  • observation [describe what  you see]
  • interpretation [what do you think it means?]
  • [hit return once for a line break]
  • -Your Name [use a dash, and add your name as you would like it to appear]

 

 

💡 Concept

Annotation is a comment and/or other piece of information that is associated with a portion of a target object, such as a line of text in a document, a detail in an image, or a clip of video. Most people think of annotations as text, such as a label, tag, or comment. Annotations can also be, or include, media, such as an image. 

An annotation can be used to add valuable information to a piece of media that is about the media itself. In that way it is somewhat different from metadata, which is information about the item, such as who made it, when, and where. Such annotations might simply identify something, a person or object, within an image. Annotations can also be used by an author for close observation and interpretation of a detail. In this scenario, annotation is used analytically, or inductively, as an incremental step toward a thesis or argument. In other words, annotations can serve an important role in making your media work for you as evidence, rather than simple illustration (or even decoration) to embellish text. 

📍 Review

References on Andreas Vesalius and his work

Watch the following references for thinking and doing the annotations.

• View the following video on Vesalius and his works.

Annotations

The hands-on activity that you just did demonstrate your developing proficiency of close and comparative viewing of visual content, through the practice of annotation, a key competency in digital scholarship. This kind of annotation has three basic elements:

• A title
• A description or observation
• An interpretive statement or an inference.
  

Example: "Simple collar. The father's collar is mid-sized, white, and has just a bit of lace frill around the edges. It appears to express simple values or Puritanism."