Electric Book Company is pleased to unveil an exciting new tool from its Cholabris collaboration brand of services.
Users wishing to access and discuss any of the hundreds of thousands of images available from NASA can now use an image annotation helper (iAnnotate) site to reference specific points or regions of an image.
Using the annotation helper, individuals can search for NASA images by keywords or terms found in the image description meta-data, and select a portion of the image to be highlighted. The resulting URL can be exchanged with any user as part of on-line dialog.
The application is ideal when the image contains complex content which would otherwise force users to download image files, import then into a graphic tool, then transfer a marked up file to others. The iAnnotate tool includes highlighting information in the shared URL, so no download is necessary.
Electric Book encourages anyone interested in accessing NASA’s extensive library of images for use in education, scientific discussion, or engineering to check out the application at the Cholabris Image Annotation Helper site.