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Using IIIF to Teach Rare Books, Special
Collections and Digital Humanities
Presented by: Rachel Di Cresce & Alexandra BolintineanuNational Library of Norway, April 12, 2018
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Introduction
● Introduction
● Background
● Manuscript Collation: Viscoll
● Paleography and Transcription: Omeka
● Spatial Humanities: (Neatline)
● Medieval Objects
● Final Thoughts
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Background
Digital Tools for Manuscript Study
“How can using digital tools enhance
the study of of rare books and special
collections or offer new avenues for
understanding and audience?”
https://goo.gl/UggxtT
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IIIF: Teaching Initiatives
Benjamin Albritton, “Fellow Travelers: The Canterbury Tales and IIIF”
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IIIF: Teaching Initiatives
Bodleian Library, Digital Manuscripts Toolkit
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Manuscript Collation: Viscoll
Experience:
● Scholars○ Fantastic resource
○ Edit/manipulate the visualization in real-
time
○ Teaching tool
● Students (Paleography)○ Enjoyed using the tool
○ Noticed mistakes they had made on their
assignments
○ Reinforced importance of note taking in
archives
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Visualization
Image Comparison
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Transcription - Omeka
Thomas Fisher Rare Book and Special
Collections Library
● Transcribe manuscripts
● Teaching
● Update holdings and cataloguing
John Stow project
● Create digital collection of John
Stow’s personal library
● Annotated and transcribe Stow’s
personal hand
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Spatial Humanities - Neatline
Kiyonori Nagasaki, University of Tokyo
● Used in two classes○ Digital Archives
○ Digital Humanities
● Teaching metadata
● Importance of interoperability
● Digital methods for academic scholarship
● Potential for international projects
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Medieval Objects - Digital Exhibits
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Feedback
Positive
● Stresses the importance of interoperability
● Photo allows freedom to damage
● Metadata reducing the obscurity of ownership
● Access
● Interactive scholarship
Negative
● Loss of scale
● Materiality
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Final Thoughts
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