iiif and mirador at the ycba: image based scholarly collaboration and research

IIIF and Mirador at the YCBA:

image based scholarly collaboration and research

Researchers’ requirements

• Interoperability between image silos

• Manipulate images

• Collaborate with colleagues across the world

Yale Center for British Art

To give scholars an unprecedented level of uniform and rich access to

image-based resources hosted around the world.

To define a set of common application programming interfaces that

support interoperability between image repositories.

To develop, cultivate and document

shared technologies that provide a

world-class user experience in

viewing, comparing, manipulating and

annotating images.

IIIF APIs

• Image API

• Presentation API

• Authentication API (draft)

• Search API (draft)

• See also: W3C Web Annotation

IIIF Image APIhttp://iiif.io/api/image/2.1/

Provides a method for requesting from a server a whole or partial image, with

transformations of scale, rotation, and color quality applied.

IIIF Presentation API

• Has just enough metadata to support a client

presenting the digital cultural heritage object for the

users to understand what they are interacting with

• Shared Canvas data model (in JSON-LD)

• Open Annotation data model

http://iiif.io/api/presentation/2.1/

IIIF Presentation API

• Collection is a list of objects or collections

• Manifest describes an object

• Sequences indicate page view order

• Canvas describes a page or view

• Images and annotations reference the canvas

IIIF Search API

• provides a method for searching annotations that are

associated with an object or image, such as

machine-generated OCR of text or notes added by a

scholar during their research.

IIIF Authentication API

• specifies how a data provider can serve access

controlled IIIF content

• specifies how to direct users to institutional login

services

• Might be released later this month!

IIIF’s value proposition

• An open framework for organizations to publish their image-based

resources, to be viewed, cited, annotated, and more by any

compatible image-viewing application such as Mirador and the

Universal Viewer, as well as platforms such as ResearchSpace and ConservationSpace.

Mirador Viewer http://projectmirador.org/

IIIF Annual Conference & Community• June 5-9, 2016 at the Vatican

• Working groups: manuscripts, newspapers, museums (NEW! JOIN!)

• Developers editorial group

• Community bi-weekly phone calls

• Discussion list: https://groups/google.com/forum/#!forum/iiif-discuss

• IIIF Community GitHub page: http://github.com/iiif

https://groups/google.com/forum/#!forum/iiif-discuss

IIIF Partner Organizations• ARTstor

• Bayerische Staatsbibliothek (Bavarian State Library)

• Biblissima

• Bodleian Libraries, Oxford University

• University of British Columbia

• British Library

• e-codices – Virtual Manuscript Library of Switzerland

• Cornell University

• Digirati Ltd

• Harvard University

• Johns Hopkins University

• Klokan Technologies

• La Bibliothèque nationale de France

• National Library of Austria

• DPLA

• Europeana

• Internet Archive

And many more!

• Nasjonalbiblioteket (National Library of Norway)

• National Library of Denmark

• National Library of Israel

• National Library of New Zealand

• National Library of Poland

• National Library of Serbia

• National Library of Wales

• Princeton University Library

• St. Louis University

• Stanford University

• TextGrid

• text & bytes

• Wellcome Trust

• Yale University

http://library.princeton.edu

http://www.textandbytes.com/en

http://wellcomelibrary.org

IIIF Architecture

• Image metadata coming from DAMS

• Object descriptive metadata coming from TMS

• Additional metadata for object (page sequence, reading direction,…): traditionally not in DAMS or TMS

“Reformation to Restoration” Research Project

Screen shot from the Making Art in Tudor Britain online project database available on the National Portrait Gallery, London’s website:http://www.npg.org.uk/research/programmes/making-art-in-tudor-britain/matbsearch.php

Unknown artist, 16th century, Portrait of a Young Woman,

1567, oil on panel, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection,

B1981.25.444

Portrait of Young Woman, 1567,

YCBA Elizabeth I, ca. 1563,private collection,

Tate Britain

Countess of Sussex (1531–1589), Sidney Sussex

College, Cambridge

Fun with IIIF

http://puzzle.mikeapps.me/

Harvard Art Museums manifests for display galleries

Bodleian Digital Library: http://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/

North Carolina State University Library

Qatar Digital Library

YCBA’s Digital Strategy

Open Access policy

Data exchange standards and

protocols

Open source tools

Linked Open Data

Yale Center for British Art’s Digital Strategy:

Use technology to make collections

as accessible as possible

YCBA’s Implementation

of the Yale Open Access

Policyfor works in the public domain

No authorization required

No fees due to the YCBA/Yale

Commercial purposes allowed

(http://ydc2.yale.edu/open-access-collections)

Dissemination of images

Cross-collection discovery

Access through

human readable format

Slide borrowed from Koven Smith

Museums need to fall out of love

with their websites

and in love with their data.

Access through

machine readable format

• OAI-PMH (Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting)

• LIDO XML (Lightweight Information Describing Works of Art)

• OCLC’s open source COBOAT & OAICatMuseum

Access through

machine readable format• Linked Open Data semantic endpoint

• CIDOC-CRM ontology (Conceptual

Reference Model)

• http://britishart.yale.edu/collections/using-

collections/technology/linked-open-data

CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model

“The CRM is a standard which will help you integrate

cultural information from a variety of sources and bring

them together into an integrated environment where

you can ask bigger questions than you can ask from

the individual pieces that you have.”

- Stephen Stead, CIDOC CRM co-creator

The CIDOC CRMTop-level classes useful for integration

participate in

E39 Actors

E55 Types

E28 Conceptual Objects

E18 Physical Thing

E2 Temporal Entities

affect or / refer to

refer to / refine

location

atE53 PlacesE52 Time-Spans

The methodology used for sharing digital resources with the

network is critical: don’t isolate your users by using home grown

technology

Relinquish control! Share our digital resources beyond our

website in formats that allow for easy creative and scholarly reuse

Technology developed by communities increases sustainability

Look for technology that supports interoperability

Develop policies and technical implementations to leverage

technology

Conclusion

Emmanuelle Delmas-Glass

Collections Data Manager

[email protected]

britishart.yale.edu

Thank you

• http://iiif.io/

• http://projectmirador.org/

• www.cidoc-crm.org/docs/CRMPrimer_v1.1.pdf

• CRM Mapping Memory Manager: 139.91.183.3/3M/

• http://www.researchspace.org/

• http://britishart.yale.edu/collections/using-

collections/technology

Michael Appleby, Head of IT, YCBA

Melissa Fournier, Manager Imaging Services and Intellectual Property, YCBA

Jessica David, Associate Conservator of Paintings, YCBA

Edward Town, Postdoctoral Research Associate, YCBA