Digital Medieval Commons

DIGITAL MEDIEVAL COMMONSDigital Library Infrastructure,

Interoperability,

and Medieval Studies

Benjamin Albritton

Digital Medieval Program Manager

[email protected]

@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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… that does what users need

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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

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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]