Digilib (short for “digital image library”) is an open software tool for the scholarly study of images via internet. It was developed to enable the study and annotation of images. High resolution digital images are stored and processed on an image server and only the small visible part of the image is transferred over the internet.
The user can zoom, rotate, mirror, enhance and annotate images in a persistent way without changing the original image data. The Digilib software facilitates two aspects of scholarly work with digital images: First, exploring and analysing images in high-resolution detail. Second, the opportunity to cite and reference research results with the aid of explaining elements and references in the image or in image segments.
The Digilib plugin in the TextGrid Laboratory implements the functions for image display, zooming, scaling, rotation and mirroring as well as colour modification. The current zoomed, rotated, mirrored, etc. view of the image can be saved as a Digilib View object and recalled at any time.
In order to work with Digilib please install it to the Laboratory via the Marketplace.
For further information see
http://www.mpg.de/410783/forschungsSchwerpunkt1
http://zuccaro.biblhertz.it/dokumentation/digilib
- Components of Digilib
- Open an image with Digilib
- Digilib Properties View
- Interaction of Digilib with Other Components