Biblissima’s prototype viewer

Demonstration and manipulation

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I. Technological environment

data model, IIIF specifications, technology stack

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Shared Canvas

Shared data model to describe digital facsimiles of physical objects...

...and every digital content resources that might be associated with it (text transcription, detailed image, sound…)

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IIIF Specifications (Image API)

Current spec: http://iiif.io/api/image/1.1/

● defines standard URI syntax (request parameters):

{identifier}/{region}/{size}/{quality}.{format}

http://iiif.io/#try-it

=> repositories can deliver images in the same way (same image requests)

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IIIF Specifications (Metadata API)

Current spec: http://iiif.io/api/metadata/1.0

● provides the information necessary for a viewer to display a digital object

● leverages the Shared Canvas data model

=> repositories can deliver structural and descriptive metadata about a digitized object in a standard manner

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What is a Shared Canvas “manifest”?It’s like a ship manifest…

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What is a Shared Canvas “manifest”?… intended for medieval manuscripts or any kind of digital surrogates of physical objects (mainly text-bearing objects).

Declares everything is on board:● basic metadata about the physical object● sequence(s) of digital images● associated content resources (text transcription/translation, detailed

images, audio, comments...)● internal structure of the document (i.e. aggregations of resources

like layers or ranges)● etc...

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What is a Shared Canvas “manifest”?

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A simple hierarchical structure of types of resources, specified in the IIIF Metadata API, based on the Shared Canvas classes and properties

What is a Shared Canvas “manifest”?

A file serialized as JSON-LD (RDF)

=> a format better suited for Javascript-based application like Mirador

A few sample files from Biblissima data :http://doc.biblissima-condorcet.fr/demos-iiif

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Demo environment at Biblissima (04.2014)

● image stacks with sample documents from Gallica, BVMM and BVH

● IIIF image server up and running (Loris)● XSL stylesheets to build manifest files from

various input formats (EAD, OAI, TEI)● Mirador instance up and running

II. Mirador viewer

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Mirador viewer● web application being developed at Stanford University:

http://iiif.io/mirador/

● multi-window image viewing and comparison workspace

● prototype demonstrating cross-repository image viewing via IIIF protocol

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Mirador demo at Biblissima http://demos.biblissima-condorcet.fr/mirador

General overview of Mirador (in French) : http://doc.biblissima-condorcet.fr/visualiseur-mirador

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III. The Biblissima case studies

http://demos.biblissima-condorcet.fr/iiif/case-studies

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Technical goals● implement IIIF for demo purposes based on different

use cases● test and compare image clients and servers● build manifests out of different metadata input formats

(EAD, OAI, TEI) coming from the Biblissima image repositories

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Library of Charles V● virtual reconstruction of the “Librairie royale” at the time of

Charles V and Charles VI● 3 sample manuscripts from Gallica (2 from BnF, 1 from

Besançon)

=> inspect and compare hands of copists, iconography, texts

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“Florus dispersus”● scattered manuscript in 3 parts (dated 8th-9th c.) containing

“Epîtres” and “Sermons” by Saint Augustine ; annotated by Florus of Lyon in the first half of 9th c.

● 1 part from Gallica (BnF), 2 other parts from e-codices (Geneva, St-Petersburg)

=> display the 3 fragments in the same interface (images are remotley called from e-codices servers via IIIF)

(work in progress : IIIF endpoint at e-codices is not yet publicly available)

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Roman du Mont Saint-Michel● work by Guillaume de Saint-Pair (12th c.)● 1 manuscript from the British Library (Add MS 10289)● text transcription in TEI from the University of Caen: http://www.

unicaen.fr/services/puc/sources/gsp

=> display images and text side by side (images are remotley called from BL servers via IIIF)

(work in progress : automatic text/image alignment for the whole work)

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10 minutes for playing around and questions

http://demos.biblissima-condorcet.fr/mirador/

http://demos.biblissima-condorcet.fr/iiif/case-studies

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