IIIF Annotation & Discovery

Michael ApplebyAcademic Software Development,Yale University

IIIF GhentDecember 8th, 2015

Image: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University

Digitally Enabled Scholarship with Medieval Manuscripts

• An Edition of Gratian’s Decretum• Creating English Literature• A Literary History of the English Book of Hours• Studying the Book of Hours: Creating Tools for

Scholars and Evaluating Manuscript Digitization

IIIF Infrastructure

– Projects are using a customized version of Mirador (v1)

– The research teams are annotating their manuscripts using a combination of text and tags

– Annotations are stored using the Open Annotation data model (MongoDB)

– Manifests and images are hosted locally or at other IIIF institutions (Stanford, Harvard, Oxford)

– Annotation discovery via Blacklight

Gratian’s Decretum

Beginning of Gratian’s Decretum 5.1.2 in three manuscripts

Gratian: Navigate by Citation

Studying the Book of Hours: Automated Analysis

Beinecke MS 310 35v, annotation of main text block and individual lines

Codicological Features

Annotating Features, Including Multispectral Images

Illustrations

Books of Hours: Saint George

Tagging Content

#image #labor_july #leo

#image #intextblock #margaret #suffrage_margaret

From Tags to Facets

Hierarchical facets in Blacklight#margaret is mapped to Subject : Figures : Margaret

Faceted Search

Thank You!Michael ApplebyAcademic Software DevelopmentYale University Information Technology Servicesmichael.appleby@yale.edu // @mikeapps

Digitally Enabled Scholarship with Medieval Manuscripts at YaleProf. Holly Rushmeier, Computer Science

• Ruggero Pintus, Postdoctoral Associate, Computer Science• Ying Yang, Postdoctoral Associate, Computer Science

Prof. Barbara A. Shailor, Classics and Medieval StudiesProf. Jessica Brantley, EnglishProf. Alastair Minnis, EnglishProf. Ardis Butterfield, EnglishProf. Anders Winroth, History