A workbench and viewer for the annotation and publishing of IIIF images.
The adoption of the international image interoperability framework (IIIF) in cultural institutions presents an opportunity for seamless collaboration on the annotation of images. A limiting factor has been the threshold of development required to implement a scholarly annotation system.
Glycerine Workbench
Glycerine Workbench provides a suite of annotation tools and end-to-end workflows for researchers, curators and students to collaborate on projects across repositories. Images can be organized into collections and shared with collaborators. Sets of annotations can combine semantic tags from domain-specific vocabularies with critical analysis in multiple languages. Annotated images can be published as research outputs in immersive and engaging visualizations and archived in sustainable formats.
Glycerine Viewer
Initially designed for the sophisticated annotation features of Glycerine Workbench, Glycerine Viewer has been released as an open source IIIF viewer to support IIIF manifests and compliant annotations built with other tools. Developed with a contemporary Vue 3 framework, Glycerine Viewer has an elegant interface, supports the IIIF Presentation API and provides the most comprehensive annotation feature set of any IIIF Viewer.
Glycerine Image Server
A IIIF Image server used by Glycerine Workbench to host uploaded images. Built on top of the open-source Cantaloupe server, Glycerine Image Server is high performance and scalable and provides a controlled environment for resource access and management. Images can be accessed via the IIIF Image API 3.0 and can be managed via a Glycerine Image Server API.
Australian Researchers and Institutions
For Australians with .edu.au or .gov.au addresses, Glycerine is hosted on a Nectar server provided by ARDC. No licenses or subscription costs with community support.
Systemik provides consulting and support services for projects and programs, and development for institutional integration and implementation.
International Researchers and Institutions
For International users, Glycerine is hosted by Systemik. No licenses, and Glycerine is free for prototypes and small projects.
Systemik provides subscription plans to support larger projects and programs and development for institutional integration and implementation.
Viewer Integration
Glycerine Viewer can be a component in a Vue 3 application or embedded in other frameworks. Go to Glycerine Viewer on GitHub for a live demo and source code for integrating Viewer into collections or content management systems.
Hosting Glycerine
Glycerine is provided as ‘software as a service’ both for Australian and for international users. Glycerine can also be provided as ‘platform as a service’ to institutions and national research bodies. Contact us to discuss hosting Glycerine on your own infrastructure.
Workbench Integration
Glycerine Workbench provides a public API and a comprehensive framework for institutional integration. Contact us to discuss integrating Workbench workflows into your infrastructure.
IIIF Consulting
Systemik provides implementation consulting to establish a IIIF server and develop an institutional strategy for image annotation for curation, research and engagement. Contact us to discuss IIIF on your own infrastructure.
Glycerine received co-investment from the Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC) as part of the HASS and Indigenous RDC CDL project. The ARDC is enabled by the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS).
