Digital Workflows and Interoperability for Emblem Studies

1. Digital Workflows and Interoperability for Emblem Studies Tim Cole (t-cole3@illinois.edu) Myung-Ja Han (mhan3@illinois.edu) Jordan Vannoy (jvannoy@illinois.edu) Jennifer Giordano University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Society for Emblem Studies 30 June 2011 Glasgow, Scotland, UK http://emblematica.grainger.illinois.edu Grainger Engineering Library Information Center

2. Order of presentation From a library perspective, this project provides the opportunityto examine & test new ways to curate scholarly digital content Agenda • Motivation – learning to curate to meet scholar expectations • Digitization workflows; a mix of generic & custom • Transcription, metadata, & other post-digitization workflows • Portal design – principles & implementation (preliminary) • Looking forward Digital Emblematica http://emblematica.grainger.illinois.edu/

3. Meeting scholar expectations • Multiple access routes • More than just the library online catalog • Collection can be entered at any point • Support for multiple granularity of resources • Book, emblem, pictura, ... • Sustainable links • Persistent URLs for book, emblem, pictura, ... • Can be referenced even at sub-object level • Links to vocabularies, increasingly as linked data • Iconclass • LCSH Digital Emblematica http://emblematica.grainger.illinois.edu/

4. Multiple ways to discover and link to content Traditonal Library OPAC Mass Digitization Disciplinary Portal Scholarly Portal As an example: Consider discovery & access points for Johann Vogel's Meditationes emblematicae de restaurata pace Germaniae

5. Discover & use content at multiple granularities Handle Thumbnail Motto Iconclass

6. Sustainable links • Persistent identifiers using recognized standards • CNRI Handles, PURLs, DOIs, ARK, .... • Content can be moved, but URIs remain the same • Use tools that support scholarly citation • W3C Media Fragments, OpenURL (djatoka), Momento • Scholars need to be able to cite segments of a resource • Repositories must version and archive Digital Emblematica http://emblematica.grainger.illinois.edu/

7. Persistent identifiers

8. Citable segments http://djatoka.grainger.illinois.edu/adore-djatoka/resolver?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_id=http://emblemimages.grainger.illinois.edu/meditationesembl00voge/JP2Processed/meditationesembl00voge_0010-0011.jp2&svc_id=info:lanl-repo/svc/getRegion&svc_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:jpeg2000&svc.format=image/jpeg&svc.level=5&svc.rotate=0&svc.region=1152,3160,320,568

9. How do we get there? • Leverage generic workflows for digitization • Create range of standard, useful derivatives • Augment with content-specific post processing • Additional metadata & description • Additional derivatives tailored to prime audience • Specialized portal tailored to target audience Digital Emblematica http://emblematica.grainger.illinois.edu/

10. Digitization Scan the book & produce JP2 Archival JP2 images Cropped JP2 images Stitch associated images together Crop Pictura

11. Outcomes of generic digitization

12. Custom post-digitization processing Motto transcription & normalization Based on: A Spine of Information Headings for Emblem-Related Electronic Resources by Stephen Rawles (2003) XML metadata generation for emblems Create additional derivatives Iconclass heading assignment

13. Linked data and vocabularies • Web has always been about relationships between & among information resources • Linked data rules: • Use URIs as names for things • Use HTTP URIs so that names can be de-referenced • Provide useful information when names de-referenced • Include links to other things so they can be discovered Goal: Build applications that discover relationships Digital Emblematica http://emblematica.grainger.illinois.edu/

14. Linking through controlled vocabularies • “Iconclass is a classification system designed for art and iconography.” • Attributes: • hierarchical • notation reflects hierarchy • both labels & keywords • Using iconclass heading assigned to an emblem as an anchor to connect to other emblems with same or related headings Search results for Emblems with same or related iconclass headings Browse/Select an iconclass heading Select an emblem Select an iconclass heading

15. LC Subject Headings as linked data Book Information – Derived from library catalog records Digital Emblematica http://emblematica.grainger.illinois.edu/

16. Creating Emblematica Online Portal • Providing integrated search / browse portal for digitized emblem resources • Different levels of access points • Leverage mixed granularity of images & metadata • Leverage sustainable links, linked data opportunities offered by book & emblem registry, topic ontologies • Anchor to the original repositories Must be a collaboration between users & libraries Digital Emblematica http://emblematica.grainger.illinois.edu/

17. Sample links illustrating prototype portal • http://emblematica.grainger.illinois.edu/OEBP/UI/SearchForm • http://emblematica.grainger.illinois.edu/OEBP/UI/SearchResults?kywrds=fama&btnSearch=Submit&eKywrds=fama&searchSection=both&startat=0&eStartat=0 • http://emblematica.grainger.illinois.edu/OEBP/UI/SearchResults?startat=0&kywrds=&eStartat=0&eKywrds=&eSearchICNot=&bModsID=8089&emblemRow=2610&icNotation=47A212 • http://emblematica.grainger.illinois.edu/OEBP/UI/SearchResults?eStartat=0&bModsID=13389 • http://emblematica.grainger.illinois.edu/OEBP/UI/SearchResults?startat=0&kywrds=&eStartat=0&eKywrds=&eSearchICNot=&bModsID=13389&emblemRow=4456&icNotation=25G3 • http://emblematica.grainger.illinois.edu/OEBP/UI/SearchResults?icNotation=25G3(...) Digital Emblematica http://emblematica.grainger.illinois.edu/

18. Emblematica Online Portal • Search / Discovery functions – • Search Books & Emblems • Search Books only • Search Emblems only • Browse by Iconclass Digital Emblematica http://emblematica.grainger.illinois.edu/

19. Emblematica Online Portal • Book [Matches] Tab – • Shows a list of books with brief bibliographic information Digital Emblematica http://emblematica.grainger.illinois.edu/

20. Emblematica Online Portal • Book [Details] Tab – • Selecting a book allows viewing detailed bibliographic information and emblems contained in the book in Emblem Tab Link to catalog Digital Emblematica http://emblematica.grainger.illinois.edu/

21. Emblematica Online Portal • Emblems Tab – • Brings up all the emblems included in the book • Selecting Emblem Tab also • makes both Emblem Detail and Browse Iconclass Tabs alive. Digital Emblematica http://emblematica.grainger.illinois.edu/

22. Emblematica Online Portal • Emblem Detail Tab introduces – • *emblem Identifier • *thumbnail • *motto • *emblem/pictura links • *Iconclass headings • (with notation and label) Using Iconclass as a new search/browse point! Digital Emblematica http://emblematica.grainger.illinois.edu/

23. Emblematica Online Portal • Browse Iconclass Tab – • Makes available iconclass headings browseable and searchable by notation Digital Emblematica http://emblematica.grainger.illinois.edu/

24. Looking ahead • Iterative design, development & collaboration • Application of existing & emerging standards to meet the needs of emblem studies community • Adding functionalities: • Annotation and tagging • Linked data services • Collection development Digital Emblematica http://emblematica.grainger.illinois.edu/

25. Digital Emblematica & the Open Annotation Collaboration Using Dannotate with conditional style by proxy Using Pliny Digital Emblematica http://emblematica.grainger.illinois.edu/