IIIF and NLWNational Library of Wales

Glen RobsonHead of Systems

@glenrobson

IIIF and NLW

• Started 2.5 years ago• IIIF for the NLW– Maps – Newspapers – Annotation – Viewers – Photographs, Manuscripts, Archives

• Multilingualism

Cynefin

cynefin.archiveswales.org.uk

Benefits of IIIF

• No transfer of images• Changes can be made straight away.• No loss of control of images

• Project closes in March!

http://newspapers.library.wales

• Open Access• Over 1.1 million IIIF Images

Wales for Peace

• HLF project to commemorate the fallen in World War 1

• Transcription of the Welsh Book of Remembrance

• In person Volunteers rather than Crowd Sourced• Project run by the Welsh Centre for

International Affairs – http://www.wcia.org.uk/walesforpeace.html

http://hdl.handle.net/10107/4642022

Simple Annotation Server• https://github.com/glenrobson/SimpleAnnotationServer

• Works with Mirador• Stores Annotations as Linked Open Data using

Open Annotations• Uses either JENA or Seasame (rdf4j.org) as a

triple store• Now supports SOLR and the IIIF Search API

http://hdl.handle.net/10107/4642022

http://hdl.handle.net/10107/4642022

Newspapers

New Catalogue!

• (December 2015)• ExLibris - Primo and Alma

• http://discover.library.wales

• Redevelop our viewers– Access through the Universal Viewer– Over 200,000 manifests– Over 1,109,768 images

http://discover.library.wales

Multilingualism

• National Library of Wales is bilingual – Welsh and English

• IIIF standard supports Multilingualism• NLW worked with Digirati to make the

Wellcome/Universal Viewer support multiple languages

Supporting InfrastructureImage API Presentation API

Fedora 3

IIP Image (JP2) PFF Image Server

Shared Storage

Image Proxy JSON Cache

METS

ALTO

Manifest

Annotations

http://dams.llgc.org.uk/iiif/2.0/image/1234

Summary

• Wide set of use cases• Interoperable Viewers• Encouraging content reuse

• Find our digital items:– http://discover.library.wales– http://newspapers.library.wales

• Help us transcribe our Maps:– http://cynefin.archiveswales.org.uk

• Twitter: @glenrobson