imgcollect

Use imgcollect for organizing your images into citeable collections for collaborative research. It is integrated with imgspect, an image annotation transcription tool. All image metadata & transcriptions are stored as an RDF graph, which can be queried & analyzed using a variety of tools, both custom to imgcollect & third-party.

Features

• Drag & drop files or copy & paste urls to upload images.
• Images are saved in several sizes automatically.
• Upload several images at once with a zip file.
• Many image formats are supported.
• Metadata is extracted from images at upload time.
• Annotate images with imgspect.
• Easily search image metadata & transcriptions with a simple, custom, query language.

Built upon...

• Rails 3
• Apache Jena Fuseki

Installation

See INSTALL.md

How to use

Add an image

• Click the add image button in the top-right corner
• An upload form pops-up
• Drag and drop image or zip files over the "Drop files here to upload" area
• Or copy & past a url to an image and click "Upload"

Update image metadata

• If you see an edit icon near an item click it
• Update the item text and press "Enter"
  • To enter a newline hold "Shift" & press "Enter"
• Note: not every item is editable

Add a collection

• Click the add collection button in the top-right corner
• A create collection form pops-up
• Fill out the form and click "Create"

Search

• There are three types of searchable items
  • image
  • collection
  • subregion
• Here's the structure of a query
  • [item] [key] [search]
• [item] can be abbreviated
  • i == img == image
  • c == col == collection
  • s == sub == subregion
• When entering [key] you will see hints
• Here are some example queries
  • i original file_name
  • c name 'manuscripts'

Add an image to a collection

• Create or search for a collection
• Click "Select" button to activate collection
  • Notice the pink box in the upper left corner with the collection name
• Now when image search results are returned they will have a pink "Add" button
• Click the "Add" button to add an image to a collection

CITEify a collection

• Before images can be annotated they must be in a collection which has been given a CITE urn.
• Search for a collection.
• Click the collection's "CITEify" button.

Annotate an image

• Before an image can be annotated it must be part of a "CITEified" collection