What we’re missing in our image archive is a tool that allows us to tag, describe, and link image details. Thanks to the project “Meta-Image” we were able to offer this capability. However, after the project ended, Meta-Image was no longer updated and is no longer available for use.

But now there’s a new opportunity. With heiANNO, the Heidelberg University Library has developed a web-based annotation module, and we are currently working on further developing it for integration into prometheus. The new annotation tool will allow you to add annotations to images in the image archive. These annotations are polygons associated with a title, a description, and a series of relationships to other annotations you have created.

This makes it easier to identify and understand iconographic relationships between image details and ensures that image annotations can be reused in the long term as independent scientific research data.