Digitised Manuscripts and the British Library's new IIIF viewer
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Digitised Manuscripts and the British Library's new IIIF viewer
Dr. Mia Ridge, @mia_outDigital Curator, British Library
[email protected] @BL_DigiSchol
Digitised Hebrew Manuscripts: British Library and BeyondLondon, November 2016
Overview
• The 'old' manuscript viewers• The Library's new viewer• Underlying standards - what is IIIF and the
Universal Viewer, and why do we care?
In 'Digitised Manuscripts'
In 'Digitised Manuscripts'
In 'Digitised Manuscripts'
In the content management system
The new viewer
Settings
Large format items
Usability testing
Underlying standards - what is IIIF and the universal viewer, and why do we care?
What is IIIF?IIIF (International Image Interoperability Framework) has the
following goals:• To give scholars an unprecedented level of uniform and rich
access to image-based resources hosted around the world.• To define a set of common application programming interfaces
that support interoperability between image repositories.• To develop, cultivate and document shared technologies, such
as image servers and web clients, that provide a world-class user experience in viewing, comparing, manipulating and annotating images.
Source: http://iiif.io/about
What problems does IIIF solve?
Grain elevators, Caldwell, Idaho, by Lee Russell, 1941. http://www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/fsac.1a34206/
IIIF Standard; Universal Viewer{ "@context" : "http://iiif.io/api/presentation/2/context.json" , "@id" :
"http://api.bl.uk/metadata/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100022545251.0x000002/manifest.json" , "@type" : "sc:Manifest" , "attribution" : "Anzac bulletin. Number 24(1917:Jun.) Usage Terms: Free from known copyright restrictions." , "description" : "By authority of the High Commissioner for Australia, London, 1917-1919., ark:/81055/vdc_100022545677.0x000001" , "label" : "Anzac bulletin.Number 24(1917:Jun.)" , "license" : "<a href=\"http://creativecommons.org/about/pdm\">http://creativecommons.org/about/pdm</a>" , "metadata" : [ { "label" : "Reference" , "value" : "Digital Store P.P.4039.wdb Digital Store P.P.4039.wdb Digital Store P.P.4039.wdb"} , { "label" : "Title" , "value" : "Anzac bulletin.Number 24(1917:Jun.)"} , { "label" : "Place" , "value" : "London"} , { "label" : "Date" , "value" : "1917-1919"} , { "label" : "Link" , "value" : "<a href=\"http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/dlDisplay.do?docId=BLL01016586310&vid=BLVU1&lang=en_US&institution=BL\" >Click here to see catalogue record</a>"}] , "related" : [ { "@id" : "http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100022545251.0x000002" , "format" : "text/html" , "label" : "View at the British Library"}] , "sequences" : [ { "@id" : "http://api.bl.uk/metadata/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100022545254.0x000001" , "@type" : "sc:Sequence" , "label" : "Current Page Order" , "viewingDirection" : "left-to-right" , "viewingHint" : "paged" , "canvases" : [ { "@id" : "http://api.bl.uk/metadata/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100022545254.0x000002" , "@type" : "sc:Canvas" , "label" : "1" , "width" : 2503 , "height" : 3375 , "images" : [ { "@type" : "oa:Annotation" , "motivation" : "sc:painting" , "resource" : { "@id" : "http://api.bl.uk/image/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100022545676.0x000001/full/full/0/default.jpg" , "@type" : "dctypes:Image" , "format" : "image/jpg" , "service" : { "@context" : "http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json" , "@id" : "http://api.bl.uk/image/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100022545676.0x000001" , "protocol" : "http://iiif.io/api/image" , "width" : 2503 , "
Other players include Mirador
Open source community
Thank you!Questions?
Mia Ridge @mia_outDigital Curator, British Library
[email protected] @BL_DigiSchol