Tools voor Digital Humanities

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

LIBIS @ KU Leuven

• Division of Leuven Research and Development (LRD)

• Part of the University Library

• Information solutions for GLAM and digitally supported

research

⁻ Information management systems, research databases, …

⁻ Apps, end-user experiences

⁻ Visualization tools

⁻ Standards and data interoperability services

⁻ Long-term preservation & accessibility of digital material

⁻ …

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Digital Humanities @ KU Leuven

• Digital Humanities

– Uses of digital tools and IT techniques to enhance research in the

domain of humanities and social sciences

– Combines classic methodologies with IT applications like data

visualization or data & text mining

• Emerging and hot: Digital Humanities summer school, new

Master starting, member of DARIAH-VL together with UGent

and UAntwerp

• LIBIS provides technical support as part of our ‘Services for

researchers’

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IDEM project

Alamire Foundation

Requirements and selection of tools

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IDEM project – Alamire Foundation

• Alamire =

– International Centre for the Study of Music in the Low Countries

– Digitize medieval music manuscripts at high resolution (80 - 100 million pixels) for research

• Integrated Database for Early Music (IDEM) project requirements:

– 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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IDEM project – Alamire Foundation

• Proposal prepared in collaboration with LIBIS (Flemish Hercules

infrastructure call, September 2013)

• Kick-off summer 2014, launch of IDEM summer 2015

• Project funding:

– 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 way

�Use open source where possible to limit the license costs

� Share development costs with projects with similar interests

CollectiveAccess, Omeka, Rosetta, IIIF Mirador viewer

Inform partner:

� Limitations and what they can expect

�Open source doesn’t means free

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CollectiveAccess

• Web application

• For describing all manner of things

• Flexible data modeling

• User friendly, without custom programming

• Extended rights management options suitable for collaboration

• Open source

IDEM database - access on request: http://www.idemdatabase.org/collectiveaccess/

About CollectiveAccess: http://www.heron-net.be/heron/collectiveaccess ;

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

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Academic metadata

Access to images

Omeka

• Flexible web publishing platform for GLAM, scholarly collections and virtual exhibitions

• User friendly back-end

• Lot’s of plug-ins

• Focused on publishing items metadata and content

• Mostly trying to attract the attention of a wider audience

• Open source and a strong developer community

IDEM website: http://www.idemdatabase.org/

About Omeka: http://www.heron-net.be/heron/omeka ; http://www.omeka.org/ ; https://github.com/omeka/Omeka

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http://www.idemdatabase.org/

Basic metadata

Access to images

Visualization requirements

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Visualization requirements

• Giving access to high resolution images in a novel way

– Quick, without loss of quality (JPEG2000)

– Easy navigation within manuscript

– Full screen, tool bars should take up limited space

– Extensive zooming options in a single and fluid movement,

focused on selected area

– Compare folio’s from different manuscripts in a single view

– Illegal download protection, watermarks

– ...

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Selection of IIIF Mirador viewer

• Virtual Vellum prototype image viewer suggested by Alamire

– Developed by University of Sheffield

– Issues: no updates since 2008, Java development

• Suggestion by LIBIS to use IIIF/Mirador instead

• Some remarks on demo version tested by Alamire (v. 0.9.0,

http://showcase.iiif.io/viewer/mirador/):

�Mayor:

� Endless pop-ups

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Selection of IIIF Mirador viewer

• Virtual Vellum prototype image viewer suggested by Alamire

– Developed by University of Sheffield

– Issues: no updates since 2008, Java development

• Suggestion by LIBIS to use IIIF/Mirador instead

• Some remarks on demo version tested by Alamire (v. 0.9.0,

http://showcase.iiif.io/viewer/mirador/):

�Mayor:

� Endless pop-ups

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Selection of IIIF Mirador viewer

• Virtual Vellum prototype image viewer suggested by Alamire

– Developed by University of Sheffield

– Issues: no updates since 2008, Java development

• Suggestion by LIBIS to use IIIF/Mirador instead

• Some remarks on demo version tested by Alamire (v. 0.9.0,

http://showcase.iiif.io/viewer/mirador/):

�Mayor:

� Endless pop-ups

� Limited full screen view

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Selection of IIIF Mirador viewer

• Virtual Vellum prototype image viewer suggested by Alamire

– Developed by University of Sheffield

– Issues: no updates since 2008, Java development

• Suggestion by LIBIS to use IIIF/Mirador instead

• Some remarks on demo version tested by Alamire (v. 0.9.0,

http://showcase.iiif.io/viewer/mirador/):

�Mayor:

� Endless pop-ups

� Limited full screen view

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Selection of IIIF Mirador viewer

• Virtual Vellum prototype image viewer suggested by Alamire

– Developed by University of Sheffield

– Issues: no updates since 2008, Java development

• Suggestion by LIBIS to use IIIF/Mirador instead

• Some remarks on demo version tested by Alamire (v. 0.9.0, http://showcase.iiif.io/viewer/mirador/):

�Mayor:� Endless pop-ups

� Limited full screen view

�Minor:� Issues with Internet Explorer

� Limitation on zoom function

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http://iiif.io

Final adaptations and bug-fixes

• Small adaptations to comply to Alamire requirements

– ‘Save as’ function disabled to prevent easy download

– Tool & lay-out ribbons minimized

• Version 2.0 release issues and configuration problems fixed

� IDEM website & database launched on August 17th

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Mirador in action - DEMO

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Single object view

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Full screen view

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Other view options

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Book view (simultaneous scroll options)

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Compare objects

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Library overview

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Compare objects

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Compare objects

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Composite libraries

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Manifest Yale manuscript: http://manifests.ydc2.yale.edu/manifest/Admont43

Future plans with IIIF & Mirador

• Implementation of access rights control

• Implement IIPImage server more widely to create manifestation

and watermarks on the fly instead during ingest

• Simultaneous view of image, transcriptions and annotations (by

getting metadata out of Rosetta web service methods)

• Adding multispectral view support to Mirador (e.g.

IIPMooViewer)

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Information.

Inspiration.

Innovation.

Roxanne Wyns, Business Consultant Heron

Roxanne.Wyns@libis.kuleuven.be

www.libis.be / www.kuleuven.be

Thank you !Questions ?