IIIF annotation workflows for Oxford University's Digital Scholarship MA.
Since 2023 Oxford University's Digital Scholarship MA has used annostor to introduce early-career researchers to the International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) and, in particular, to the W3C's Web Annotation Data Model (WADM).
Scholars can employ digitised manuscripts and historic documents provided by the Bodleian Libraries and also by other libraries, special collections and research institutions internationally which now support IIIF.
Importing and annotating IIIF resources
Cultural heritage resources can be imported to annostor projects simply by pasting their IIIF manifest URL. Scholars can build up projects using sources from global holding organisations and annotate them immediately in their annostor workspace.
And annostor saves their work—over extended periods, if necessary—providing the flexibility for developing research activities; adding additional IIIF resources, or uploading imagery not supported elsewhere.
Publishing and preservation
When complete, the Oxford MA projects submit WADM/JSON annotation collections for assessment and, after approval by course directors, publish as Zenodo research records e.g. https://zenodo.org/records/14105086 (click Open using annostor).
annostor returns a Digital Object Identifier (DOI), linked to students' ORCIDs—making their work fully discoverable and guaranteeing long-term preservation as first-class research records.
