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Digital Tools for Manuscript Study
Facilitating knowledge creation
Rachel Di Cresce, Project Librarian, University of Toronto Library
Four Parts to Project• Users
• Centre for Medieval Studies • Broader community
• Content • Digital images
• Scholarly Output • Codicology • Palaeography • Pedagogy
• Technical Stack • Data formats • Tools
Our Users• Who
• Medievalists (obviously) • Rely heavily on digital images for research and
teaching • Have varying specialities • Varying levels of technical competency
• Needs assessment • Interviews • User stories • Contextual design
Results What do our scholars want?
• Robust image viewing • Annotation capabilities • Collation tools • Data portability • Cross-institutional resource sharing and
accessibility • Standardized, easy to use tools • Pedagogical tools and materials
Four Part SolutionData portability / institutional resource sharing
• International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF)
Robust image viewing and annotations
• Mirador (Web Annotation specification)
Easy to use tools / pedagogical • Omeka
Collation tool • Viscoll
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“IIIF is an interoperable technology and community framework for image delivery”
Current Stage
• Create a Mirador plugin within Omeka
• Ensure non IIIF-compliant content can make use of Mirador
• IIIF import function - manifest, nested collections, reference URL
• Allow annotation creation in Mirador to create Omeka item
Next phase: Viscollhttps://github.com/leoba/VisColl
• Collation tool
• Two part system at moment
• Collation building
• Visualization
• Make a standalone, robust, web application
• Integration with IIIF?
Next phase: UTL integrationUTL collections
• Provide IIIF endpoints for digital collections
• Fisher Rare Book Library
Persistence layer
• Image and annotation store
• API which pushes and pulls data into repository and IIIF ecosystem
IIIF-to-go
• suite of tools and resources to facilitate entry into IIIF environment
• aimed at non-adopters and smaller institutions
Resources• Dot Porter. Viscoll https://github.com/leoba/VisColl
• International Image Interoperability Framework. http://iiif.io
• Project Mirador 2.1 (2016). http://projectmirador.org
• Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media,George Mason University (2016). Omeka https://omeka.org
• University of Toronto Libraries (2016). Digital Tools for Manuscript Study https://digitaltoolsmss.library.utoronto.ca
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