Web Annotations: the enjoyment of digital works with Mirador and IIIF: In the landscape of enhancing digital cultural heritage, DSpace-GLAM today gains new features thanks to Web Annotations, a tool that allows for enriching digital images with structured and interactive annotations. Integrated within the Mirador viewer, compatible with the IIIF (International Image Interoperability Framework) standard, this technology opens new possibilities for educational and outreach use of the Digital Library
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Web Annotations: the enjoyment of digital works with Mirador and IIIF: Web Annotations allow researchers, educators, and curators to insert comments, explanations, historical references, or multimedia directly onto images of manuscripts, artworks, maps, or photographs. But the real leap in quality comes from the ability to build narrative pathways, designed to guide the user through selected content organized in a coherent way. In DSpace-GLAM, the platform for managing and enhancing digital cultural content, annotations are not isolated elements but become part of the network of relationships that link them to digital objects, people, places, events, etc. This approach allows for enriching the content of the Digital Library, promoting new ways of exploring and analyzing heritage.
The combination of IIIF, Mirador, Web Annotation, and DSpace-GLAM represents an advanced ecosystem for digital storytelling and immersive learning, with a significant impact on both research and outreach.With this technology, the digital heritage increasingly becomes a living and interactive space where text, image, knowledge, and interpretation engage in dialogue.