Hi,
I have installed the Image Annotate and Mirador Viewer modules. In Omeka Classic, it was possible to create annotations directly within the Mirador Viewer exhibition. However, in Omeka S, annotations seem to be available only at the media (image) level, not within the Mirador Viewer itself.
For our use case—an Art Digital Library—annotating images directly in the Mirador Viewer is essential. Is it currently possible to create annotations within the Mirador Viewer in Omeka S? If not, is there any recommended workaround or roadmap for this functionality?
Thank you in advance.
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We don’t use the Mirador module, but I know some about Mirador generally. I took a look at the module, and it seems like there are a lot of configuration options, including adding plugins. If that’s something you can do, you could add the mirador-annotations plugin to get the annotation capability in the viewer.
However, it also looks like there’s no access restricting by default. If your Omeka S installation is widely available, you are likely to get random and even malicious annotations sooner or later.
Could you say more about what you are doing now or wanting to do?
Apologies if this is all stuff you have worked through.
Hi,
Thanks for the answer. As we have an Art Digital Library, we need to explain some images. Our library isn’t widely available yet. Example (from Omeka Classic, in portuguese):
That does seem helpful. Can the people making the annotations log into Omeka S and add them that way? It seems like what you’re saying is that’s not workable, but I don’t want to assume.
If the annotators can’t for any reason use the administrative side of Omeka S, I am out of my depth other than what I said before.
I’m not sure whether this is possible in Omeka S. In Omeka Classic, this was possible, but annotation permissions were restricted to administrators, not all users.
The manual pages for the Image Annotate module seem to show the annotation happening on the authoring side and showing up on the reader side. Further,
Users at the Author level and above can annotate images. Authors can only annotate media that they own; users at Reviewer or higher can annotate any media in the installation.
That’s certainly not all users, but Author is a fairly low-privilege role.
