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The Biblissima PortalCurrent state and future plans
Régis ROBINEAU@regisrob
IIIF OUTREACH HANDSCHRIFTENPORTAL 2018
Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Leipzig
@biblissima
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Biblissima?
➔ Data facility for historians of ancient texts
➔ 10 partners, including the Archives nationales (since 2017)
➔ International collaborations: IIIF, Wellcome Library, MMM...
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The main goals of Biblissima
➔ Federate digital libraries
➔ Facilitate access to and reuse of data (both textual and documentary resources)
➔ Create and enrich data corpora
➔ Structure research communities
➔ Train researchers and mediators
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Biblissima data cluster
bit.ly/ressources-biblissima
30+
catalogues and databases
3+digital libraries
10+digital editions
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beta.biblissima.fr
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The Biblissima portal(in a nutshell)
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Main features
➔ Focus: history of collections / transmission of texts in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
➔ aggregates specialized data on medieval manuscripts and early printed books
➔ search, browse, visualize+ query and export...
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Map of a Life cycle of a manuscript:Heidelberg, Universitätsbibliothek, Cod. Pal. lat. 864
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Life cycle of a Work:Pliny the Elder, Natural history
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Biblissima and IIIF
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Biblissima’s commitment to IIIF
➔ actively involved in the IIIF initiative since 2013
➔ first French-speaking IIIF outreach event (Paris, March 15th, 2018)
➔ demos and implementation into the portal
➔ technical advisor for the 3 digital libraries in the initial scope of Biblissima, and beyond...
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Biblissima-BnF Viewer Interoperability Meetings (May 13-17th, 2013)
frama.link/iiif-paris-2013
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Biblissima’s commitment to IIIF
➔ actively involved in the IIIF initiative since 2013
➔ first French-speaking IIIF outreach event (Paris, March 15th, 2018)
➔ demos and implementation into the portal
➔ technical advisor for the 3 digital libraries in the initial scope of Biblissima, and beyond...
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Biblissima and IIIF Day: Innovating to Rediscover the Written Cultural Heritage (March 15th, 2018)
frama.link/biblissima-iiif-day
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Biblissima’s commitment to IIIF
➔ actively involved in the IIIF initiative since 2013
➔ first French-speaking IIIF outreach event (Paris, March 15th, 2018)
➔ demos and implementation into the portal
➔ technical advisor for the 3 digital libraries in the initial scope of Biblissima, and beyond...
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Compare the iconographic cycles of two incunabulas(Biblissima demo: Ovide moralisé ou La Bible des poètes en images)
frama.link/ovid-iiif
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Annotation in Mirador: region of the image + transcription of the caption + indexing of the
deities or characters (as oa:Tag)
frama.link/ovid-iiif
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Biblissima’s commitment to IIIF
➔ actively involved in the IIIF initiative since 2013
➔ first French-speaking IIIF outreach event (Paris, March 15th, 2018)
➔ demos and implementation into the portal
➔ technical advisor for the 3 digital libraries in the initial scope of Biblissima, and beyond...
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bvmm.irht.cnrs.fr
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gallica.bnf.fr
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www.bvh.univ-tours.fr
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3 interoperable digital libraries
mirador
Gallica
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The use of IIIF in the portal
➔ About 15,000 books viewable on the portail via IIIF (October 2018)
➔ 13 IIIF sources :◆ Gallica-BnF, BSB, Library of Congress, Archive.org,
Universität Heidelberg, e-codices, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Bodleian Libraries, Wellcome Library, Numistral, WDL, BVMM, Harvard University
➔ Licences (beta.biblissima.fr/en/licences)
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Embedded Mirador viewer: Manuscript page
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Embedded Mirador viewer: Manuscript page
IIIF logo + IIIF Manifest URL (Gallica)
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Embedded Mirador viewer: Edition page
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Embedded Mirador viewer: Historical Collection page
IIIF logo + IIIF Collection URL
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Embedded OpenSeadragon viewer: Illumination page
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Mirador workspace
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(Soon) IIIF Manifests for “collections” of illuminations
View collection of images
Open in Mirador a “virtual” Manifest with all the images of illuminations depicting comets
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(Soon) IIIF Manifests for “collections” of illuminations
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(Soon) IIIF Manifests for “collections” of illuminations
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Technical overview
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Data aggregation and integration worflow
➔ based on a customized XML format ("pivot") maintained by the Biblissima technical team (Github)
➔ data processing:
◆ disambiguation and clustering of entities
◆ alignment to linked open authority files and datasets
◆ minting unique and stable identifiers
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Tools
➔ OpenRefine
➔ custom scripts toolkit to extract, transform, enrich the source data
➔ web publication relies on CubicWeb (open-source framework for semantic web application, in Python)
➔ Postgresql as backend storage
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Current status and roadmap
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Overall Development of the portal
➔ Publicly online since April 2017
➔ 6 major updates in 18 months (development log: beta.biblissima.fr/en/dev-log)
➔ from 4 to 12 data sources integrated and interlinked
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Current data scope: 12 sources
➔ Bibale
➔ CRII (Regional Catalogues of Incunabulas of the French Libraries)
➔ Europeana Regia
➔ Esprit des livres
➔ Manuscripta Medica
➔ RegeCart
➔ Bibliothèques françoises
➔ BnF Archives et manuscrits
◆ Arsenal Library
◆ Mss’ department
➔ Medieval Manuscripts of the Wellcome Library
➔ Mandragore
➔ Pinakes
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Current volume of data
➔ About 500,000 “entities” (web pages)
➔ 95,000 manuscripts / 18,000 incunabulas / 7000 editions
➔ 205,000 illuminations
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Ongoing developments
➔ create IIIF Manifests for sets of illuminations (associated with a given descriptor)
➔ access to the iconographic thesaurus of Mandragore (BnF)
➔ integration of Initiale (IRHT), database of illuminations from public libraries in France (Mandragore is focused on BnF only)
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Plans for 2019
➔ Integrate more data: ◆ Reliures.bnf.fr, Miroir des classiques, BUDE, Jonas, Books
within Books, Thecae…
➔ Publish Biblissima authority files:◆ shelfmarks, persons and corporate bodies, works, places
➔ Provide access to structured data (RDF), expose endpoints for machines (Sparql / APIs)
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Plans for 2019
➔ Continue the functional development of the portal:◆ IIIF: create index of illuminations (IIIF Ranges) based on
the data from Mandragore and Initiale
◆ optimisation of the data importer
◆ improvements to the search engine and facets
◆ UI refinements
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Thank you for your attention!
Régis ROBINEAU(Biblissima - Campus Condorcet / EPHE-PSL)
Biblissima Team:Kévin Bois
Eduard Frunzeanu
biblissima.fr