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Making the most of digitized manuscripts: IIIF and the Digital Manuscripts Toolkit
1. Making the most of
digitized manuscripts:
a free IIIF workshop
Emma Stanford, Bodleian Digital Library Systems and Services
@emmastanfordx
@bdlss
2. Agenda
• Introduction to IIIF
• Survey of IIIF tools and implementations
• The Digital Manuscripts Toolkit
• Questions?
• Hands-on: working with IIIF manifests in Mirador
5. “Image delivery is…
…too hard
…too slow
…too expensive
…too disjointed
…too ugly”
- Tom Cramer, June 2015
6. The old model:
• no widely accepted standards for images and metadata
• no COPAC for digitized materials
• each library builds its own image-viewing platform(s)
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10. What should look like this…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Peabody_Library#/media/File:George-peabody-library.jpg, CC BY-SA
13. How do we make digital image
delivery…
cheaper and easier for libraries?
more consistent and user-friendly for researchers?
extensible and interoperable?
something better, rather than something worse?
14. The goals of IIIF:
• 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
17. IIIF Image API
source: http://iiif.io/api/image/2.1/
• allows you to request or
embed an image from any
IIIF-compliant image
service
• requests can specify a
particular region of an
image in a particular
resolution, orientation,
colour or file type
22. The IIIF community
• 60+ institutions, including the Bodleian, the British Library, the Wellcome
Trust, the Vatican Library, Europeana, the Bibliothèque nationale de
France, Stanford University, Harvard University, Qatar National Library,
etc., etc.
• building IIIF-compatible collections, software and tools
28. 2. Compare and
search across items
Archaeology of Reading in
Early Modern Europe
(a collaboration between Johns Hopkins
University, the Centre for Editing Lives and
Letters at UCL, and the Princeton
University Library)
http://archaeologyofreading.org/
http://archaeologyofreading.org/
31. 2. Compare and search across items
Welsh Newspapers Online
National Library of Wales
http://newspapers.library.wales/
http://newspapers.library.wales/
40. What can’t you do (easily, yet)?
• search across different institutions’ collections
• create your own manifests
• build new IIIF image and manifest services without considerable technical expertise
41. The Digital Manuscripts Toolkit
• supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
• designed to help researchers who want to use IIIF but may not have
institutional technical support
• three tools…
43. • in-browser drag-and-drop tool to build new manifests out of existing image
sequences
• designed in collaboration with text & bytes
• testing period for beta release: August 2016
44. 2. Converting metadata
• command-line tool
• enables conversion of existing metadata (TEI, METS etc.) to IIIF manifest
format
https://pixabay.com/en/bash-command-line-linux-shell-148836/
45. 3. Converting images
• command-line tool and code package for creating IIIF image endpoints
46. Get involved
• testing and feedback period for new tools in August, plus additional testing
and feedback sessions in Michaelmas and Hilary terms
• dmt.bodleian.ox.ac.uk
• emma.stanford@bodleian.ox.ac.uk, @emmastanfordx, @bdlss
47. Exercises and links doc: https://goo.gl/w9aAzR
emma.stanford@bodleian.ox.ac.uk
@emmastanfordx
@bdlss