IIIF Annotation Studio

This is the Mirador IIIF Viewer packaged as a desktop app with an embedded annotation endpoint that saves annotations to a local sqlite database.

This is a proof of concept, slightly usable at the moment. A lot of things are missing:

• annotation api: create
• annotation api: update and delete
• UI: a page listing all manifests and relative annotations
• export (and import) of annotations
• builds for linux (AppImage) and Windows
• share annotations (maybe using DAT)

Build

Clone

git clone https://github.com/atomotic/iiif-annotation-studio
cd iiif-annotation-studio

Install go-bindata

go get github.com/jteeuwen/go-bindata/...
go get github.com/elazarl/go-bindata-assetfs/...

Install modules (requires dep)

dep ensure

Package static assets

go-bindata-assetfs static/...

— Build for macos

go build -o "build/macos/IIIF Annotation Studio.app/Contents/MacOS/IIIF Annotation Studio.app"

Run IIIF Annotation Studio.app from build/macos
(if you trust me there is a ready made build in releases)

— Build for linux. GTK3 and GtkWebkit2 required, not yet tested.

go build
./iiif-annotation-studio

Backup

The first run creates the sqlite database $HOME/.annotations/annotations.db if not existing. Just backup this file.

➜  ~ sqlite3 ~/.annotations/annotations.db .schema
CREATE TABLE annotations (
		id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY,
		annoid VARCHAR,
		created_at DATETIME,
		target VARCHAR,
		manifest VARCHAR,
		body TEXT);
CREATE UNIQUE INDEX annotation_id ON annotations (annoid);

Disclaimer

Is this another Electron app? NO, is made in golang with zserge/webview.

See also

Mirador Desktop: Electron based, annotations on LocalStorage

Acknowledgement

demetsiiify by Johannes Baiter contains an extremely simple annotation server that is probably the best piece of code to learn how Mirador interacts with annotations stores.