Mirador: A Cross-Repository Image Comparison and Annotation Tool

Drew Winget & Rashmi SinghalStanford University Libraries, Harvard

December, 2015

Self Portrait, 1659 Portrait of a Young Man, 1646

Portrait of a Young Woman, 1667

Mirador use casesComparison

Annotation

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Instruction

Reunification

Open sourceJavascript

Interoperable

Community driven

ExtensibleIIIF compatible

OpenAnnotation Compatible

Interoperability and comparison

• My research concerns the content; I do not want to be burdened by institutional barriers.

• I want to view objects from multiple institutions side by side, without significant friction.

• I want to collect annotations about several objects in one place.

• I want to be able to refer others to exactly the thing I am discussing or researching.

“get pixels” via a simple, RESTful, web service

Just enough metadata to drive a remote viewing experience

Image API Presentation API

IIIF: Two APIs

Compatible Software

IIP Image

IIP Moo Viewer

digilib

FSI Viewer

FSI Server

Wellcome PlayerMirador diva.js

Image Servers

Image Clients

Image Apps

Internet Archive Book Reader

Compatible Software

IIP Image

IIP Moo Viewer

digilib

FSI Viewer

FSI Server

Wellcome Player Mirador diva.js

Image Servers

Image Clients

Image Apps

Internet Archive Book Reader

Compatible Software

IIP Image

IIP Moo Viewer

digilib

FSI Viewer

FSI Server

Wellcome Player Mirador diva.js

Image Servers

Image Clients

Image Apps

Internet Archive Book Reader

Advanced Applications• Embed a specific view in another context.• Tie into internal events to take advantage

of some features while providing a custom interface to others.

• Seamlessly reconstruct fragmented documents from dozens of separate sources.

Open sourceJavascript

Interoperable

Community driven

ExtensibleIIIF compatible

OpenAnnotation Compatible

“Open Source” No, really.2013-~2014• Yale and Stanford obtain grant to create Mirador 1• Chris Jesudeuai and Drew Winget at Stanford, open on github

2014-2015• Dedicated joint effort by Harvard and Stanford• Rashmi Singhal joining as a primary developer• Mirador 2.0 released• Integration with HarvardX and Harvard Libraries• Contributions from broader community including Princeton and Biblissima.

2016NGA + ConservationSpace, EPFL, YaleMirador 2.1 - full IIIF feature support (“Shared Canvas”)

Roadmap

Unfinished Business• Detail images embedded on virtual canvas• Multiple alternate images overlaid on virtual

canvas• Viewing direction updates• 2.0 ranges• Support for IIIF collection browsing• More robust metadata fields display• Per-canvas metadata• Per-resource annotation and metadata display• Support for blank canvases

http://projectmirador.orghttp://github.com/iiif/miradorhttp://gitter.im/IIIF/mirador

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