Automating IIIF Manifests for Mirador
Digital Humanities 2014 Conference, Sydney, 1st-4th July 2015
Data Futures presented its 'Automated Transformation of Digital Corpora' paper at Digital Humanities 2015, using generation of manifests for the Mirador viewer to demonstrate computed transformation of heterogeneous corpora.
This demo uses assets from multiple Data Futures projects, including Mao-era Chinese posters, anthropology field notebooks from Tajikistan and 1920's postal voice mails, and shows the deep zoom and annotation capabilities of Mirador and the Image and Presentation APIs of IIIF. Select an image scale interactively, or use the Mirador and tools for annotation pop-ups and core metadata; the button provides audio content.
The International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) facilitates systematic reuse of image resources in digital image repositories maintained by cultural heritage organizations and Mirador provides an open source state-of-the-art internet service for existing corpora without the need to transfer potentially very large files. Originally an initiative of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, IIIF now comprises a growing community of 'the world’s leading research libraries and image repositories which have embarked on an effort to collaboratively produce an interoperable technology and community framework for image delivery' with the following goals:
- 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 repositories.
- To develop, cultivate and document shared technologies, such as image servers and web clients, that provide a world-class user experience in viewing, comparing, manipulating and annotating images.
