1. Image Annotation A presentation by Kelly Marie Blanchat

2. What it Does Image annotation allows users to choose a section of an image to ‘highlight’ and associate with text. Think: Facebook & Flickr I am using it to translate hard-to-read text in letters, to help the user get the visual information from the scanned image, while also enabling content.

3. Who can use it Anyone! You can set up Image Annotation for just the administrator, give access to certain users, or everybody. Pros of Image Annotation: – INTUITIVE – Easy to use (intuitive!) – Makes you look like an expert web-designer Questions: Will it work with LIGHTBOX? We’ll see…

4. How To #1: Make sure there is a folder within your chosen theme called ‘ items’ – If not, simply create an ‘items’ folder before moving to step 2. – If you are undecided on your theme, simply copy the items folder into every theme so that you won’t have to back-track later.

5. How to #2: In WinSCP / Fetch / etc. follow the path of application  views  scripts  items Copy the "show.php" file found in and move it to the items folder that you just created.

6. How to #3: Choose the ‘edit’ option for ‘show.php’ Paste in the following function:

7. How to #4: Save, Save, Save – The file path should be: themename  items  show.php

8. Issues Don’t write too much! All the annotation text boxes are placed below the selected (‘highlighted’) area – if you select an area near the bottom of the image a scroll bar will pop up and make it impossible to read the text. I somehow lost my administrator view in Omeka. The Plug-in still works, it’s just annoying. (I probably tried to change something else in the ‘show.php’ file – don’t be a nerd and keep it how it is!