Digitised Manuscripts and the British Library's new IIIF viewer

Dr. Mia Ridge, @mia_outDigital Curator, British Library

digitalresearch@bl.uk @BL_DigiSchol

Digitised Hebrew Manuscripts: British Library and BeyondLondon, November 2016

Overview

• The 'old' manuscript viewers• The Library's new viewer• Underlying standards - what is IIIF and the

Universal Viewer, and why do we care?

In 'Digitised Manuscripts'

In 'Digitised Manuscripts'

In 'Digitised Manuscripts'

In the content management system

The new viewer

Settings

Large format items

Usability testing

Underlying standards - what is IIIF and the universal viewer, and why do we care?

What is IIIF?IIIF (International Image Interoperability Framework) has the

following goals:• To give scholars an unprecedented level of uniform and rich

access to image-based resources hosted around the world.• To define a set of common application programming interfaces

that support interoperability between image repositories.• To develop, cultivate and document shared technologies, such

as image servers and web clients, that provide a world-class user experience in viewing, comparing, manipulating and annotating images.

Source: http://iiif.io/about

What problems does IIIF solve?

Grain elevators, Caldwell, Idaho, by Lee Russell, 1941. http://www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/fsac.1a34206/

IIIF Standard; Universal Viewer{ "@context" : "http://iiif.io/api/presentation/2/context.json" , "@id" :

"http://api.bl.uk/metadata/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100022545251.0x000002/manifest.json" , "@type" : "sc:Manifest" , "attribution" : "Anzac bulletin. Number 24(1917:Jun.) Usage Terms: Free from known copyright restrictions." , "description" : "By authority of the High Commissioner for Australia, London, 1917-1919., ark:/81055/vdc_100022545677.0x000001" , "label" : "Anzac bulletin.Number 24(1917:Jun.)" , "license" : "<a href=\"http://creativecommons.org/about/pdm\">http://creativecommons.org/about/pdm</a>" , "metadata" : [ { "label" : "Reference" , "value" : "Digital Store P.P.4039.wdb Digital Store P.P.4039.wdb Digital Store P.P.4039.wdb"} , { "label" : "Title" , "value" : "Anzac bulletin.Number 24(1917:Jun.)"} , { "label" : "Place" , "value" : "London"} , { "label" : "Date" , "value" : "1917-1919"} , { "label" : "Link" , "value" : "<a href=\"http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/dlDisplay.do?docId=BLL01016586310&vid=BLVU1&lang=en_US&institution=BL\" >Click here to see catalogue record</a>"}] , "related" : [ { "@id" : "http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100022545251.0x000002" , "format" : "text/html" , "label" : "View at the British Library"}] , "sequences" : [ { "@id" : "http://api.bl.uk/metadata/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100022545254.0x000001" , "@type" : "sc:Sequence" , "label" : "Current Page Order" , "viewingDirection" : "left-to-right" , "viewingHint" : "paged" , "canvases" : [ { "@id" : "http://api.bl.uk/metadata/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100022545254.0x000002" , "@type" : "sc:Canvas" , "label" : "1" , "width" : 2503 , "height" : 3375 , "images" : [ { "@type" : "oa:Annotation" , "motivation" : "sc:painting" , "resource" : { "@id" : "http://api.bl.uk/image/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100022545676.0x000001/full/full/0/default.jpg" , "@type" : "dctypes:Image" , "format" : "image/jpg" , "service" : { "@context" : "http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json" , "@id" : "http://api.bl.uk/image/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100022545676.0x000001" , "protocol" : "http://iiif.io/api/image" , "width" : 2503 , "

Other players include Mirador

Open source community

Thank you!Questions?

Mia Ridge @mia_outDigital Curator, British Library

digitalresearch@bl.uk @BL_DigiSchol