digital medieval commons
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Presentation at the Medieval Academy of America meeting, 2013, held in Knoxville, TN for the roundtable discussion: Back to the Future: Exploring New Digital Initiatives in Medieval Studies, sponsored by the Medieval Academy of America Graduate Student CommitteeTRANSCRIPT
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DIGITAL MEDIEVAL COMMONSDigital Library Infrastructure,
Interoperability,
and Medieval Studies
Benjamin Albritton
Digital Medieval Program Manager
@bla222
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Web Application – Institution A
Image 2 Institution
B
Image 3Institution
C
Web App – Institution A
Image 1Institution
A
Image 5 Institution
A
Image 6Institution
D
Image 4 Institution
D
“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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Web Application – Institution A
Web App – Institution A
MS Image 2 Institution B
MS Image 1 Institution D
Book Reader Software - Tool Maker X Deep Zoom Client -- Tool Maker Y
Image 1 tution D
+_
… that does what users need
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Web Application – Institution A
Web App – Institution A
Map Image 1 Institution D
MultiUp Comparison Viewer - Tool Maker X
Map Image 2 Institution E
Map Image 3 Institution B
Map Image 4 Institution D
Annotation Tool
Xcription Tool
Georeferencing Tool
Image Analytics Tools
… no matter where the content “lives”
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Medieval Manuscripts: The Complex Use-Case
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CCC 26 f. iiiR Fold A Open Fold A and B Open f. iiiV
Medieval Manuscripts: The Complex Use-Case
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Medieval Manuscripts: The Complex Use-Case
Lambeth Palace Maidstone Museum
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Medieval Manuscripts: The Complex Use-Case
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Countless manuscripts, all around the world!
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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)
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Separate Data from Delivery
Image Data (Canonical)
Image Viewer
Discovery
Annotation
Metadata (Canonical)
Transcription
Image Viewer
Image Analysi
s
Discovery
Tool X?
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Deliver via API: IIIF
http://library.stanford.edu/iiif/image-api
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Data Model: SharedCanvas
http://www.shared-canvas.org
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CHMTL text + Parker image in T-PEN
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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
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Resource Interoperability: Viewers
Independently control and compare pages from different parts of a manuscript… from different manuscripts… from different repositories
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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]