Mirador and IIIF: A new platform for displaying and sharing digital images. abcd Library February 23, 2015

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1 Mirador and IIIF: A new platform for displaying and sharing digital images abcd Library February 23, 2015

2 Speakers Jeffrey Hamburger, Kuno Francke Professor of German Art and Culture, Department of History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University Randy Stern, Director, Systems Development, Library Technology Services, Harvard University Information Technology Jud Harward, Director of Research Computing for the Arts and Humanities, Academic Technology Services, Harvard University Information Technology Rashmi Singhal, Software Engineer, HarvardX Jeff Emanuel, Senior Project Lead (Instructional Development), HarvardX; CHS Fellow in Aegean Archaeology and Prehistory, Center for Hellenic Studies, Harvard University 2

3 The vision

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7 Existing siloed page delivery services don t fulfill that vision ?n=8&printThumbnails=true Slide thanks to Randy Stern

8 Each Archive Has Its Own Viewer Bavarian State Library Houghton Library Uses DFG Viewer WWW Uses PDS Viewer 8

9 U/I s have improved, but not uniformly eg: Tablet PDS (2012) obile/index.html?id= Slide thanks to Randy Stern

10 There are missing features that users need 2 page view with opening Better ways to navigate a volume Support for layered views (e.g., image and transcription) Support for annotation Ability to compare documents from multiple archives and even to assemble virtual volumes 10

11 A Harvard strategy you may not have expected! 11

12 Collaboration Harvard University Bibliothèque Nationale de France British Library Oxford University Stanford University Johns Hopkins University University of Fribourg Saint Louis University Drew University TextGrid Los Alamos National Laboratory Yale University Cambridge University ARTstor Cornell University Princeton University Walters Art Museum National Library of Norway The National Archives (UK) DPLA Europeana and more: Community driven ( Defined APIs for digital object linking and reuse Plug & Play software (the Mirador image viewer)

13 Mirador at Collaborative Software Development Define collaboration with Stanford Pedagogical enhancements (Annotation, LTI) Project Start Deliver page viewer Launch The Book

14 Chronology 7/ /2012 2/2013 Jeffrey Hamburger proposes page turner as potential project to Digital Humanities Committee (DHC), chaired by Dean Sorensen Jud Harward & Jeffrey Hamburger tasked by DHC to survey options Report submitted to DHC. Principal recommendations: External collaboration rather than internal development Shared Canvas as platform Incorporation of annotation capability Strategic goals: Internal collaboration among HUIT/HarvardX/Library/Faculty HarvardX project The Book as vehicle Report approved by DHC 7/2013 HarvardX commits to fund an experienced developer for 12 months

15 Chronology (cntd) 12/13 present 6/2014 3/2015 3/ /2015 Development of Mirador viewer with HarvardX support Initial recruitment of faculty for research and pedagogy case studies Harvard Library commits to adapting the Hx Mirador viewer as a replacement for the PDS and thereby to maintain a DRS-based tool at Harvard Completion of first set of modules for The Book using Mirador, including Annotation Development of subsequent set of modules... Continued development of annotation capabilities Collaboration with broader IIIF community Partnership with Yale University on annotation

16 Mirador Collaborative Software Development HarvardX Digital Arts & Humanities Library Technology Services

17 Mirador Collaborative Software Development Stanford Library OpenSeaDragon Developer

18 Potential Collaborators Archives & repositories around the University Museums Harvard resources: 25% of medieval mss. in North America Faculty & graduate students (research community) Faculty & undergraduates (pedagogic community) Vehicle for the Campaign for: Library Humanities/Digital Humanities HarvardX One University

19 Harvard Library Current Status and Plans for Mirador June 2014 Harvard Library approved project to develop Mirador/Oculus to replace the aging DRS page delivery service December 2014 Summer 2015 Software development and deployment Library working group charged to guide functional requirements January 2015 Discussions with Harvard Art Museums

20 Mirador Demonstration Rashmi Singhal, Software Engineer, HarvardX Rashmi Singhal (HarvardX)

21 Library goals for Mirador and IIIF Provide an improved book display user interface Expose digital content through standard APIs Position content for future uses (transcription, annotation) Collaborate more! within Harvard (building on the successful Tablet PDS collaboration) externally with peer institutions 21

22 Improved book display - Mirador

23 Improved book display 2 page view of book opening Full screen mode Annotation ready Ability to display Shared Canvas books from both the DRS and other institutions within the same U/I Modern javascript implementation

24 IIIF Opens Harvard library digital content for reuse over the Web and allows Harvard to reuse content from the digital repositories at peer institutions (e.g. Yale, British Library, Oxford) A content delivery Web API (the digital book or digital image) Not a discovery API (title, author, subject) Sample Use Cases Teaching: Displaying a Virtual manuscript where Harvard holds some pages and Yale holds other pages Research: Comparison of a Harvard and British Library copy of the same work Library or Museum: Creating online collections that include material from multiple institutions

25 Common Data Model - Shared Canvas

26 Open Annotation

27 IIIF - IIIF Image API e.g.

28 IIIF - IIIF Presentation API \ { "canvases": [" json"], "within": " "@id": " "@type": "sc:range", "label": "f. 47: The Annunciation - Bethrothal of Mary and Joseph - Mary weaving - Birth of the Virgin - Joachim in prayer" }, e.g.

29 Last but not least Improved future positioning Built on the W3C Open Annotation framework Support for the Open Knowledge Foundation s Annotator js package Compatibility with the HUIT Academic Technology Services Catch annotation store ( Common Annotation, Tagging, and Citation at Harvard ) Open source, with community support ( )

30 Learning Tool Interoperability Learning Technology On Campus, Online, and Beyond

31 Research Learning Technology On Campus, Online, and Beyond Snapshotting workspaces object, image, location, zoom level to derive patterns of usage and to conduct research into this application as a pedagogical tool

32 Mirador at Collaborative Software Development.

33 Thank you. 33