Annotation Templates define the fields that can be used in an annotation, like ‘Title’ or ‘Description’. You can use different Templates to annotate your images with different kinds of information.
Glycerine has three built-in default Annotation Templates that can be applied to many contexts:
- Standard – A general-purpose template for annotations, suitable for scholarly use cases. It includes fields for descriptive text, references, attribution, and dates.
- Basic – A simple template for straightforward annotations. Best used when only a title and short description are required.
- Minimal – A minimal template for quick or lightweight annotations, used for quick notes or simple remarks without additional detail.
If these Templates don’t suit your needs, you can make custom Templates with any type of field you like.
The examples on this page showcase a variety of different Annotation Templates across the same image: the Schist Buddha Triad (year 5). Multiple Annotation Sets using different Annotation Templates can combine to present different interpretations of an image, for example, Scholarly, Gallery, and Textual.
Scholarly templates
Glycerine has the flexibility and depth to meet the rigorous requirements of scholarly image annotation. In this example, two scholarly Annotation Sets have been created using Glycerine’s built-in default Annotation Templates. These Sets explore scholarship on the Features and Materiality of the Buddha Triad.
In this example, the Features Annotation Set uses the default Standard Template and the Materiality Set uses the default Basic Template.
Gallery templates
Custom Annotation Templates allow Glycerine image annotation to be applied in different gallery or museum contexts. In this example, two Annotation Sets have been created with the same custom Template. The Gallery Collection Set shows a general annotation of the image, intended to be viewed by a member of the public through a gallery’s collection page on their website. The Gallery Exhibition – Divinity Set shows annotations specific to a physical exhibition that the Buddha Triad may be featured in, focusing on the theme of divinity in art. These might be shown on a digital display next to the object in the exhibition.
These annotations are set to play by default (you can pause using the buttons at the top right).
The fields included in the custom Gallery Template are:
- Title
- Description
- 3D Model
- More Information
Textual (Philological) templates
Annotating manuscripts and inscriptions is made flexible with custom Annotation Templates. In this example, the inscription at the bottom of the Buddha Triad has been annotated in two Annotation Sets with different custom Templates, at the Token and Syllable level (‘Tokens’ are words or symbols). These Sets could be used for linguistic and philological scholarship, or adapted to a gallery context.
The fields included in the custom Token Template include:
- Glossary
- Transliteration
- Translation
- Chaya
- Lemma
- Grammatical Gender
- Grammatical Number
- Case
- Pronunciation