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Recent WDL Innovations and
Partner Feedback(Jason Yasner, WDL Operations Manager)
World Digital Library Partner Meeting
5-6 November, 2015, Alexandria, Egypt
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Translation Experiment Statistics Partner Institution Page API International Image Interoperability
Framework (IIIF) WDL-Partners Slack Forum Partner Production Dashboard (v1.0)
Recent Innovations
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Crowdsourcing experiment; volunteer-based, highly controlled to maintain quality
Students in the Master’s program in “English to French translation” at Université Charles-de-Gaulle (Lille3), France
Arrangement with the professors, setting up mechanisms to import and export files, and establishing a workflow and quality review processes
Translation Experiment
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Basic WDL collection statistics Appears on footer of every page Available in all seven (7) languages Partners can now request more in-depth,
institution-specific statistics Working toward more self-service
features www.wdl.org/statistics
Statistics
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Template ready for institution page Comprehensive information about institution
and its collections Partners to provide the descriptive information
for each of these pages Translation burden/cost will be considerable,
so their added value needs to be considered carefully
www.wdl.org/en/institution/library-of-congress/
Partner Institution Page
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Application Programming Interface “A set of routines, protocols, and tools
for building software applications”* Allows developers to interact with WDL
content and tools creatively RSS feeds, OpenSearch, IIIF, METS Available in English only api.wdl.org
API
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* Source: Wikipedia
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Increasingly popular API in the digital library community
New international standard to provide uniform access to images and metadata
Allows developers to create innovative tools to display and interact
iiif.github.io/mirador/demo/ universalviewer.azurewebsites.net For more information: iiif.io
International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF)
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Online forum using cloud-hosted, commercial product: Slack
Facilitates robust communication Used by WDL production team and
other LC teams Invitation-only as of now wdl-partners.slack.com For more information: slack.com/is
WDL-Partners Slack Forum
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Draft v1.0 ready for review Provides content batch status throughout
the WDL production process Sortable by headers “Notes” field for more specific information Reaches out one year into the future We’d like your feedback! partners.wdl.org
Partner Production Dashboard
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QUESTIONS?Jason M. YasnerOperations ManagerWorld Digital [email protected]
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