IIIF and NLW National Library of Wales Glen Robson Head of Systems @glenrobson
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