Glycerine - Image Annotation Workbench and Viewer - Initial Release

[Systemik Solutions]

Hi All,

We are delighted to announce our initial release of Glycerine, an image annotation workbench and viewer.

• Glycerine Workbench provides a suite of annotation tools and end-to-end workflows for researchers, curators and students to collaborate on projects across repositories. Images can be organized into collections and shared with collaborators. Sets of annotations can combine semantic tags from domain-specific vocabularies with critical analysis in multiple languages. Annotated images can be published as research outputs in immersive and engaging visualizations and archived in sustainable formats.  Glycerine Workbench provides a public API and a comprehensive framework for institutional integration.
• Glycerine Viewer was designed to support the sophisticated annotation features of Workbench.  Glycerine Viewer has been released as an open-source viewer to also support IF manifests and compliant annotations built with other tools. Developed with a contemporary Vue 3 framework, Glycerine Viewer has an elegant interface, supports the IIIF Presentation API and provides a comprehensive annotation feature set. 

Please register at Glycerine to try the workbench and visit the IIIF Cookbook Viewer Matrix to see Glycerine Viewer support across recipes. 

Really looking forward to feedback from the community.  You can get support from our site and/or report issues directly from either Workbench or Viewer. 

All the best

Ian McCrabb, Yang Li and Isobel Andrews on behalf of Systemik Solutions