Charting the European D-SEA: Digital Scholarship in East Asian Studies

Sunkyu Lee

The Regionalizing Infrastructures in Chinese History (hereafter Reginfra) project has recently released IMMARKUS: Image Annotation in X-Markus. Different from other existing image annotation tools, including Mirador, the IMMARKUS allows users to design their own data model and to link your annotation to one or more external authority services, including TGAZ (China Historical GIS placename Database), CBDB (China Biographical Database Project), and DILA (Buddhist Studies Authority Database Project). In this workshop, participants will learn how to use IMMARKUS to create a customized data model, annotate images with different types of properties, add metadata, visualize relationships between different elements, and export annotations, data model and metadata. This session is intended for researchers, scholars and practitioners who may not have previous experience in image annotation but are interested in using digitized images for their research.

The tentative structure of the workshop is as follows:

• A 30-minute presentation about the basic interface of IMMARKUS, the concept of entities and properties in a hierarchical data model, possible input and output formats, etc.

• A 60-minute hands-on session on how to use IMMARKUS. Using sample images, participants will learn how to create or edit a data model, annotate multiple images, add notes, enter metadata information at both folder and image level, define relationships between different entities, create knowledge graphs, and export their annotations.

• A 60-minute session during which participants will have the opportunity to create their own data model, upload and annotate their own images, export their annotations, and analyze their annotations.

• The final 30-minute discussion session for questions and answers, and for participants to share their experiences of using IMMARKUS.

Prerequisites

Participants are required to bring their own laptop with a Google Chrome browser running. In addition, participants are strongly encouraged to prepare for a folder with more than three image files (.jpeg or .png files) that they would like to use in future research. During the second half of the workshop, participants will use their own image files to annotate and create a data model.