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Digital Manuscript Interoperability. SharedCanvas and IIIF in Practice Benjamin Albritton Digital Manuscript Product Manager blalbrit@stanford.edu @bla222. Summary: 2010-2013. Funding from Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Initial meeting of scholars and curators – Paris, 2010
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Digital Manuscript Interoperability SharedCanvas and IIIF in Practice Benjamin Albritton Digital Manuscript Product Manager blalbrit@stanford.edu @bla222
Summary: 2010-2013 • Funding from Andrew W. Mellon Foundation • Initial meeting of scholars and curators – Paris, 2010 • Digital Manuscript Technical Working Group – 2010-pres. • Data Model: SharedCanvas • Data Sharing Framework: IIIF (International Image Interoperabiity Framework)
DMSTech and IIIF • Bibliothèquenationale de France • British Library • Oxford University • Stanford University • Johns Hopkins University • University of Fribourg (e-codices) • Saint Louis University (T-PEN) • Drew University (DM) • TextGrid • Los Alamos National Laboratory • Yale University • Harvard University • Cambridge University • ARTstor • Cornell University • Princeton University • Walters Art Museum • National Library of Norway • The National Archives (UK) • … and more
Interoperability – One Definition • Primary Goal: • Image and metadata sharing across collections and institutions • “Killer app”: • a single viewer that reads content from multiple repositories
Synopsis • Two primary motivators • Comparative viewing of images • Viewing of annotations • Part of the current Stanford-led Mellon grant for Digital Manuscript Interoperability • Goals: • Support for use-cases at Yale, University of Toronto and Johns Hopkins University • Comparative viewing for manuscript images in a book, across books, across collections, across repositories • Support annotation and transcription viewing • Support light-weight annotation creation
How do we do it? • Represent the physical object in a common data model (SharedCanvas) • Deliver the data via common API (IIIF)
Data Model: SharedCanvas http://www.shared-canvas.org
How do we do it? • Represent the physical object in a common data model (SharedCanvas) • Deliver the data via common API (IIIF) http://iiif.io
IIIF API Development and Current Status • Work driven by real-world use-cases • Scholarly projects and interviews • Personae developed • http://www.stanford.edu/group/dlss/dms-viewer/personas/ • Development work referred back to these use-cases on an ongoing basis • Confirmed that APIs actually support real needs • Status • Image API at 1.1 release • Metadata API at 1.0 release
Deliver via API: IIIF http://library.stanford.edu/iiif/image-api
Implementation • Meeting at Harvard in October 2013 • Eight institutions • Stanford • Yale • Harvard • University of Kentucky (vHMML) • Oxford University • University of Fribourg (e-codices) • Los Alamos National Laboratory • Biblissima (France) • Goal: 6-8 institutions with: • Mirador installed • Showing content from all other institutions • Prototype ability to add more content • Development contributions?
Mirador Development Process • Two-year grant cycle: • Design • Creation of personas: • http://www.stanford.edu/group/dlss/dms-viewer/personas/ • Creation of mock-ups and wire-frames • http://www.stanford.edu/group/dlss/dms-viewer/mocks/#1 • Development • Phased development of different components • Comparative image viewing – COMPLETE • Annotation and transcription viewing – IN PROCESS • Annotation creation - FUTURE • 1.0 public release planned for December 2013 • 2.0 public release planned for December 2014 • Post-2014: ongoing development of a community of adopters and committers for this open source project
The Beinecke as Institutional Leader • Technical implementation is relatively easy • Institutional buy-in to share content, and lots of it, is more of a challenge • The Beinecke could play a leading role as one of the major North American manuscript repositories • Benefits: • Increased access to scholarly and public use of the content • Transcription and annotation of Beinecke content • Crowd-supported cataloging • Comparison of Beinecke books with related or comparable books in other repositories in a single interface