Tools voor Digital Humanities

Een hoge resolutie viewer voor onderzoek naar manuscripten Roxanne WynsBusiness Consultant Heron

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KU Leuven & LIBIS

• Division of Leuven Research and Development (LRD) • Part of the University Library • Information solutions for GLAM and digitally supported

research• Centre of digital expertise for KU Leuven researchers and

GLAM partners– information systems (metadata, thesauri …)– data interoperability (mapping, standards …)– Long-term preservation & accessibility (specialized viewers …)– Development (apps, end-user experiences, research databases …)

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Digital Humanities at KU Leuven

• Emerging and hot• Digital Humanities summer school• New Master 2015-2016• Partner in DARIAH-VL together with UGent and UAntwerp• More investment needed in infrastructure and technically

skilled staff• Some interesting cases, many more plans…

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DH cases @ KU Leuven

Alamire Foundation – Integrated Database for Early Music (IDEM)

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Alamire – Integrated Database for Early Music

• International Centre for the Study of Music in the Low Countries • Digitise medieval music manuscripts at high resolution (80 - 100

million pixels)• Specific requirements concerning

– Data model and query options– Collaboration with other researchers– Long term preservation of content– High resolution viewer!

http://www.alamirefoundation.org/

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Alamire – Integrated Database for Early Music

• Project funding Hercules infrastructure call (Flanders)• Main budget preserved for storage & long term

preservation• Limited resources for database, website, and viewer• Currently no budget for post-project maintenance

This influenced the selection of tools

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Decision to:Reuse a combination of existing tools in a flexible wayUse open source where possible to limit the license costsShare development costs with projects with the same interest

CollectiveAccess, Omeka, IIIF Mirador viewer, Rosetta

Inform partner: Limitations and what they can expectOpen source doesn’t means free

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CollectiveAccess• Web application• For describing all manner of things• Flexible, conform to your needs• User friendly, without custom programming• Extended rights management options suitable for collaboration• Open source, so no license cost

http://www.collectiveaccess.org/ https://github.com/collectiveaccess

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Extensive management tools

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Extensive access rights settings options

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Extensive access rights settings options

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Omeka• Flexible web publishing platform for GLAM and scholarly collections

and virtual exhibitions• User friendly back-end• Lot’s of plug-ins and a strong developer community• Focused on publishing items metadata and content• Mostly trying to attract the attention of a wider audience• Open source, so no license cost• Active developers community

http://www.omeka.org/ https://github.com/omeka/Omeka

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IDEM website

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Alamire viewer

• Giving access to high resolution images in a novel way– Quick, no loss of quality (JPEG2000)– Extensive zooming options– Compare folio’s from different manuscripts in a single view– Illegal download protection, watermarks– ...

• Selected technology for further developments– IIIF/mirador (https://github.com/IIIF/mirador)– Developments to meet requirement ongoing

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Mirador demo

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Vatican Library - Chig.C.VIII.234 ; Digitsed by the Alamire Foundation IAZ 2015 - Tools for Digital Humanities

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S• Accessibility• Collaboration• Interoperability

W• Traditional• Limited technical skills• Interoperability

O• Innovation• Interdisciplinary

collaboration• Data exchange

T• Budget vs. Requirements• Sustainability• Long Term Preservation

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Recommendations

• Collaborate• Use standards• Share developments• Plan sustainability

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Information.

Inspiration.Innovation.

LIBIS @ KU LeuvenRoxanne.Wyns@libis.kuleuven.bewww.libis.be / www.kuleuven.be

Thank you !Questions ?

AcademicLibrary Archive Museum

Management layer

Repository layer

Public layer

Rosetta

Print Electronic Digital

Linking

Discovery and delivery

Publishing

Primo

Alma

Lirias

Our support

• Configuration, metadata and thesaurus modelling, interoperability, development

• Full service support• Long-term preservation of content and data• Expertise & advice• Networking• Partnership!