Category Archives: Image Annotation

Image annotation to enable a website user to select parts of images viewed and tag these parts specifically for example with a person’s name or a place name.

‘Finding Wee Paddy’ … and finding Riflemen Mellon, Howard and Delaney

Posted on October 18, 2017 by Robert Bickers

‘Finding Wee Paddy’ is a new documentary that has its first showing on 21 October at the Metropolitan Arts Centre, Belfast. It tells the story of the relocation of the grave of Rifleman Patrick McGowan, Royal Ulster Rifles, who was … Continue reading →

Posted in Collections, Image Annotation | Tagged British Army, cemeteries, Rosholt, Shanghai, Sino-Japanese War | Comments Off

Is it a mouse, is it a cat?

Posted on January 18, 2017 by Robert Bickers

It’s a cat, Felix the Cat to be precise. To continue my discussion about dates, identifications and being corrected, I can provide a little demonstration of the power of crowd-sourcing data-annotation. Well, that is the technical term. In practical terms, … Continue reading →

Posted in Image Annotation, user engagement | Tagged children, Dairen, metadata | Comments Off

Location Location Location

Posted on December 9, 2013 by Jamie Carstairs

As we digitise more material, more connections are elicited. For example, a photograph (BL04-71) in the recently copied Love collection was captioned in the album ‘Great War Memorial Wei-Hai-Wei’. Seeing this photograph brought to mind a photograph in the Ruxton … Continue reading →

Posted in cross-searching, Image Annotation, Update | Tagged location, memorial, war, Weihaiwei | Comments Off

The Song of the River

Posted on June 12, 2013 by Jamie Carstairs

Porters would carry heavy loads and full pails up from the river into the city of Chungking, scaling long flights of steps, as in this photograph taken by Warren Swire: Steps in Taiping Men, Chungking, 1920. See also Sw19-067, below. … Continue reading →

Posted in Exhibition, Image Annotation, Photograph of the day | Tagged Chongqing, Chungking, exhibition, Maugham, porter, river, song, steps, Swire, work | 1 Comment

Laundry

Posted on January 9, 2013 by Jamie Carstairs

These two photographs from unrelated collections show women washing clothes on rocks. Whilst doing their own work together in a communal way, one imagines the women having neighbourly conversations, perhaps even singing. The images have several similarities and may have … Continue reading →

Posted in Image Annotation, Photograph of the day | Tagged laundry, Taylor, Wilkinson, women, work, worker | Comments Off

Christmas Quiz

Posted on December 17, 2012 by Jamie Carstairs

This intriguing montage photograph (DH-s019) of forty sketched portraits of foreigners and one photographic portrait, is labelled “PEKING CHRISTMAS 1877”. Their faces can be studied more closely at DH-s020, DH-s021 and DH-s022. Most of the photographs in the Henderson collection … Continue reading →

Posted in Image Annotation, Photograph of the day, user engagement | Tagged 1877, Beijing, Christmas, Henderson, portrait, sketches | Comments Off

N is for Ningbo

Posted on July 2, 2012 by Robert Bickers

The team has recently been corresponding with an informal group in the eastern Chinese city of Ningbo, who are researching the architectural heritage of this former treaty port. Opened under the first of the Sino-British treaties (Nanjing, 1842), Ningbo was … Continue reading →

Posted in Alphabet China, Elsewhere on the net, Image Annotation, Photograph of the day, user engagement | Tagged Bowra, bridge, Ningbo | 1 Comment

A goose being taken to the home of a bride-to-be

Posted on March 20, 2012 by Jamie Carstairs

Apparently, at the Proposal Meeting (of the parents of the bride-to-be and her groom), the bridegroom’s family will present the bride’s family with a live goose. The bride’s family should not kill the goose and eat it, because the … Continue reading →

Posted in Image Annotation, Photograph of the day | Tagged anthropology, betrothal, bird, bridegroom, custom, engagement, fiancé, furniture, goose, marital, marriage, rite, ritual, swan, symbol, table, wedding | Comments Off

Patches for a Canton panorama

Posted on March 5, 2012 by Jamie Carstairs

Many thanks to all contributors to Visualising China, including the astute person who pointing out that the location recorded for UB01-14 (http://visualisingchina.net/#hpc-ub01-14), below, was not quite accurate: Canton (Guangzhou) yes, Shamian Island no. The relevant image entry details have now … Continue reading →

Posted in Image Annotation, Photograph of the day | Tagged boat, cloth, garden, hong, junk, office, sampan | Comments Off