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The Glycerine IIIF Platform Framework – 6 Modules Explained

Posted by Choleon September 1, 2026September 17, 2026in Features

Glycerine IIIF platform, built by Systemik Solutions on the IIIF standard, is architected as six independently usable modules designed to slot into infrastructure you already have.

Glycerine Workbench, Glycerine Viewer, Glycerine Plugin for WordPress, and Glycerine IIIF Viewer for Omeka S are the front-end layer. Glycerine Workbench functions as the full collaborative environment, where researchers and curators build and share annotations using configurable templates and IIIF-compliant workflows. Glycerine Viewer is open source, supports the IIIF Presentation API, and ships as a Vue 3 component that also embeds in any JavaScript framework. If you just need to render manifests and annotations built elsewhere, Glycerine Viewer works as a drop-in piece rather than a full platform commitment. Glycerine Plugin for WordPress and Glycerine IIIF Viewer for Omeka S do the equivalent job for WordPress and Omeka S, exposing annotated collections as galleries and carousels through configuration rather than custom code.

Glycerine Server and Glycerine Editor are where the integration work happens. Glycerine Server exposes the backend data model and APIs, including a IIIF image server built on Cantaloupe, so your existing digital asset management system can talk to Glycerine Server. Glycerine Editor takes this further: it embeds Glycerine Workbench’s annotation tools directly inside your CMS, allowing curators to author annotations in the environment they already use, while Glycerine Server runs in the background to enable seamless collaboration.

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Omeka S Module – Glycerine Viewer

Posted by Choleon September 1, 2026in Features, IIIF

The Glycerine Viewer module for Omeka S provides an embedded IIIF-compliant interface for displaying high-resolution images with layered annotations. Built on modern web components, it supports zooming, region selection, and interactive annotation overlays within standard Omeka S item pages. The module enables institutions to present complex interpretive material directly alongside collections, maintaining performance, interoperability, and alignment with IIIF Presentation API specifications.

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Buddhas and Boddhisattvas

Posted by Choleon September 1, 2026September 17, 2026in Case Studies

Gandhāran Buddha and Bodhisattva statues are among the earliest anthropomorphic images of the Buddha; this project undertakes an art-historical analysis of their iconography to clarify the doctrinal and ritual meanings embedded in these forms. Working through Glycerine Workbench’s IIIF-native annotation environment, the project layers close visual analysis directly onto high-resolution images, allowing iconographic features to be tagged, compared and cross-referenced against textual and epigraphic sources at the level of individual sculptural details.

Glycerine Workbench and Glycerine Viewer are deployed to implement and publish scholarly and gallery annotation sets across institutional collections and repositories.

Collaborating Institutions: Art Gallery of NSW, Chau Chak Wing Museum, National Gallery of Australia, Peshawar University, Power Institute, The Met.

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New Feature – Image AI Integration

Posted by Choleon August 26, 2026September 10, 2026in Updates, Features

Glycerine Editor now integrates AI-assisted image analysis to augment scholarly and curatorialn annotation practice. We have implemented automated region outlining using ONNX SAM2 runningon WebGPU, with assisted additive and subtractive refinement. Magnetic cursor tools assist in fine outlining of complex shapes. These outputs enter the standard workflow as draft annotation layers, subject to expert review, correction, and enrichment. The result is a radical reduction in manual effort at scale without compromising interpretive control, metadata integrity, or alignment with institutional standards and IIIF-based publication.

Glycerine Workbench has been updated. If you have not already, please register and try it out.

Workbench Upgrade

Posted by Choleon August 25, 2026September 17, 2026in Updates

Glycerine Workbench has just been upgraded with a range of improvements include annotation ordering controls within Annotation Sets and publication URL parameters for direct linking to specific annotations and image canvases. Glycerine Workbench provides image hosting, IIIF manifest generation, annotation tools, configurable templates, and end-to-end workflows for researchers and curators to collaborate on projects across repositories.

Images can beorganised into collections and shared with collaborators. Sets of annotations can combine semantictags from domain-specific vocabularies with critical analysis in multiple languages. Fully IIIF-compliant, annotated images can be published as research outputs and archived in sustainableformats.