Presentation at the Medieval Academy of America meeting, 2013, held in Knoxville, TN for the roundtable discussion: Back to the Future: Exploring New Digital Initiatives in Medieval Studies, sponsored by the Medieval Academy of America Graduate Student Committee
2. Imagine A Viewer…
Web Application – Institution A
“Virtual” Collection of
Distributed Resources, e.g.,
Image 1 Image 2 Image 3
• Teaching Collection
Institution Institution Institution
• Cross-Repository Search
A B C
• Personal Research
Resources Collected
from the Web
Image 4 Image 5 Image 6
DescMD & Deep
Institution Institution Institution Link for
D A D Resource 6 via
IIIF MD API
Web App – Institution A
3. … that does what users need
Web Application – Institution A
+
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MS Image 1
Institution D
MS Image 2
Institution B
Image 1
tution D
Book Reader Software - Tool Maker X Deep Zoom Client -- Tool Maker Y
Web App – Institution A
4. … no matter where the content “lives”
Web Application – Institution A
Annotation Tool
Map Image 1 Map Image 2
Institution D Institution E Xcription Tool
Georeferencing
Tool
Map Image 3 Map Image 4 Image Analytics
Institution B Institution D Tools
MultiUp Comparison Viewer - Tool Maker X
Web App – Institution A
8. Medieval Manuscripts:
The Complex Use-Case
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Countless manuscripts, all around the world!
9. How do we do it?
1. Separate data from delivery
1. Deliver the data via common API (IIIF)
1. Represent the physical object in a common data model
(SharedCanvas)
10. Separate Data from Delivery
Image Image
Transcription Annotation Discovery Tool X?
Analysis Viewer
Image Viewer Discovery
Metadata (Canonical)
Image Data (Canonical)
11. Deliver via API: IIIF
http://library.stanford.edu/iiif/image-api
14. Examples of other resources attached to
the facsimile
• User-generated
comments (public
and private)
• Audio
performances of
notated music
• Overlaid text
transcription
• Also:
• Data sets
• Mark-up
• Base
image
For working examples, see www.shared-canvas.org choices
16. What’s next?
• Expose your content
• You don’t have to give it away if you don’t want to or can’t – just
expose it
• Share your requirements:
• User annotations?
• Geo-fun?
• Crowd-sourced cataloging?
• Join the conversation at dmscommons@lists.stanford.edu
Editor's Notes
Transcription, Annotation, Description, and other activitiesDisbound or rebound manuscriptsManuscripts with flaps, folds, or other structures
Manuscript fragmentsDispersed leaves
Manuscript fragmentsDispersed leaves
New information for existing resourcesLine locations on image, line breaks in text