IIIF Crowd Sourcing Platform

Glen Robson

Head of Systems

National Library of Wales

Plan

• Background

• Collections

• Video Demos

Past Experience

• Wales 1900 http://gb1900.org

• Cynefin: http://cynefin.archiveswales.org.uk/en/– 800 active volunteers

• Wales at War: http://www.walesatwar.org/site/home– Working with Schools

• Chartists: http://chartist.cynefin.wales– Omeka

• Book of Remembrance: http://hdl.handle.net/10107/4642022– Mirador and SimpleAnnotationServer

• Aber Student Records: http://transcribe.library.wales/aber

• In house volunteers– Aberystwyth Shipping Records transcription

Drivers

• Supporting remote volunteers

• Faster results for volunteers

• Be able to support more projects and provide more opportunities

Benefits of Crowdsourcing

• Engagement

• Enhanced discovery

• Research and Re-imagining

– https://medium.com/@404mike/shipping-records-73e3fd48a16e#.aqxgfeogl

– Video of ships traveling around the world

– Heat map of Sailors birth places

– Average age

Lessons

• Mostly project funded

• Need a generic extensible solution

• Move from project to program

Project

• Funded by the Welsh Government• Out to tender in December• A strong response from the market• Awarded the contract to Digiarti in January.

• Open Source• Use IIIF and W3C Web Annotations• Reusable for community• Extensible• Based on Omeka-S

Collections

• Why these?

– No copyright issues

– Digitised and available online

– Representative of future projects

– Available volunteers

Gwilym Livingstone Evans

WW1 Tribunal Records

Thomas Pennant, A tour in Wales1773 - 1776

New project

• Find IIIF Collection

• Add to Omeka

• Setup Omeka website

• Configure Capture model

• Go!

Summary

• This is only possible due to IIIF and Web Annotation standards

• All code will be made open source

• Please use it and extend

• Questions.