This collection of material results from research conducted at Leuphana University between 1990 and 2015 headed by Prof. Dr. Martin Warnke (martin.warnke@leuphana.de).

https://www.leuphana.de/en/institute/icam/forschungsprojekte/abgeschlossene-projekte/hyperimage.html
https://www.leuphana.de/institute/icam/forschungsprojekte/abgeschlossene-projekte/hyperimage.html

see also:
Prometheus meets Meta-Image: implementations of Aby Warburg’s methodical approach in the digital era
Martin Warnke & Lisa Dieckmann
https://doi.org/10.1080/1472586X.2016.1173890


Every project in this collection is a .zip-file that has to be decompressed (unzipped) and uploaded to a standard web server, from where it can be addressed by using the path to the directory that contains all the files and directories of that project. If not stated otherwise, a standard web browser with JavaScript enabled is the only technical requirements to access and view the material.

These projects are done by use of the hyperimage software suite.

HyperImage implements the pictorial footnote on the image, meaning that precisely marked image details can be linked via hypertext with other image details, image collections and texts. The image details are intellectually identified and marked, i.e., by authors, not by programs. The link itself is triggered in the Web browser with a mouse click. The link structure is automatically indexed by the computer.

In text-based scientific work, there are standard techniques with which references between parts of texts can be created in such a way that all members of the scientific community can work in a compatible fashion.

Details of images, on the other hand, are until now conventionally localized by designating and demarcating the position and identity either with gestures (pointer, arrow, circle) or language (foreground, middle ground, background, or left/right, top/bottom). There are possibilities to designate image details on the Web using clickable maps, but that entails extremely time-consuming manual work. Hence, image references are typically reduced to addressing whole images.

With HyperImage, an arbitrary number of details within an image can be precisely marked and described, and annotations of the corpus can be linked with each other and accessed via indexes. Both interim results and final versions can be created at any time as hypermedial online or offline publications. Different, individually introduced and tested procedures and data repositories are combined in HyperImage to one research and publication environment that can be used by one or more persons.

Target groups include all humanities and natural sciences working in an image-oriented way.

The projects were authored by the hyperimage editor software that in the end yields the collection of image-, html-, xml-, and JavaScript-files that are stored here.

The latest runnable version of the software is located as open source here:

https://github.com/DAASI/HyperImage3