digital medieval commons
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Presentation at the Medieval Academy of America meeting, 2013, held in Knoxville, TN for the roundtable discussion: Back to the Future: Exploring New Digital Initiatives in Medieval Studies, sponsored by the Medieval Academy of America Graduate Student CommitteeTRANSCRIPT
DIGITAL MEDIEVAL COMMONSDigital Library Infrastructure,
Interoperability,
and Medieval Studies
Benjamin Albritton
Digital Medieval Program Manager
@bla222
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“Virtual” Collection of Distributed Resources, e.g., • Teaching Collection• Cross-Repository Search• Personal Research
Resources Collected from the Web
DescMD & Deep Link for
Resource 6 via IIIF MD API
Imagine A Viewer…
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Book Reader Software - Tool Maker X Deep Zoom Client -- Tool Maker Y
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… that does what users need
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MultiUp Comparison Viewer - Tool Maker X
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Annotation Tool
Xcription Tool
Georeferencing Tool
Image Analytics Tools
… no matter where the content “lives”
Medieval Manuscripts: The Complex Use-Case
CCC 26 f. iiiR Fold A Open Fold A and B Open f. iiiV
Medieval Manuscripts: The Complex Use-Case
Medieval Manuscripts: The Complex Use-Case
Lambeth Palace Maidstone Museum
Medieval Manuscripts: The Complex Use-Case
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Countless manuscripts, all around the world!
How do we do it?
1. Separate data from delivery
2. Deliver the data via common API (IIIF)
3. Represent the physical object in a common data model (SharedCanvas)
Separate Data from Delivery
Image Data (Canonical)
Image Viewer
Discovery
Annotation
Metadata (Canonical)
Transcription
Image Viewer
Image Analysi
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Discovery
Tool X?
Deliver via API: IIIF
http://library.stanford.edu/iiif/image-api
Data Model: SharedCanvas
http://www.shared-canvas.org
CHMTL text + Parker image in T-PEN
Examples of other resources attached to the facsimile
• Audio performances of notated music
• Overlaid text transcription
• User-generated comments (public and private)
• Also:• Data sets• Mark-up• Base
image choicesFor working examples, see www.shared-canvas.org
Resource Interoperability: Viewers
Independently control and compare pages from different parts of a manuscript… from different manuscripts… from different repositories
What’s next?• Expose your content
• You don’t have to give it away if you don’t want to or can’t – just expose it
• Share your requirements:• User annotations?• Geo-fun?• Crowd-sourced cataloging?
• Join the conversation at [email protected]