Presentation by Claire Knowles, Library and University Collections, at University of Edinburgh Open Knowledge Network event, 31st January 2017

1. OPEN CONTENT/
OPEN
COLLECTIONS
Claire Knowles
University of Edinburgh, Library and University Collections

2. University Collections http://collections.ed.ac.uk/

3. Digital Imaging Unit http://libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk/diu/

4. Open Content ■ Over 27,000 images
■ Approximately 11,000
with CC-BY license
■ Open by default
■ High-Res downloads up to
12288px
■ However:
– Resourcing
– Legislation
– Data Protection
– Copyright
– Permissions

5. Item Context
http://collections.ed.ac.uk/iconics/record/51402

6. International Image Interoperability
Framework (IIIF) http://iiif.io
IIIF (International Image Interoperability Framework) has 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 image 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.
From http://iiif.io/about/

7. Item/Image Comparisons
http://dms-data.stanford.edu/data/m2/index_chaucer.html#c99cc7ca-f547-4f1a-9881-a9f7b2ccb899 link from
http://web.stanford.edu/group/dmstech/cgi-bin/wordpress/tag/mirador/

8. Side by side zooming
http://dms-data.stanford.edu/data/m2/index_chaucer.html#c99cc7ca-f547-4f1a-9881-a9f7b2ccb899 link from
http://web.stanford.edu/group/dmstech/cgi-bin/wordpress/tag/mirador

9. Collection Reconstructions
http://projectmirador.org/demo/#3ea6f1cb-2061-424a-bb3c-edd72eb5f8eb from
http://www.slideshare.net/simeonwarner/2015-01-cornellvrwgiiif

10. Image manipulation in the URI
From http://iiif.io/api/image/2.1/#order-of-implementation

11. Open Annotation

12. PhDTheses
■ Since 2005
■ Over 18,000 items
■ Pre-Pure publication
https://www.era.lib.ed.ac.uk
https://www.era.lib.ed.ac.uk

13. Mass Digitisation
■ 15,000+ PhDTheses
■ 3Year Project
■ 1 year in to the project
■ Dedicated project
team
■ OCR'ed PDFs
■ Open Access but
licensing stillWIP
http://libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk/
phddigitisation/

14. Open Access Publishing
■ Open Source
■ 16 Journals
■ CC-BY
■ Academic and Student Led
http://journals.ed.ac.uk/

15. Claire Knowles
Library Digital Development Manager
claire.knowles@ed.ac.uk
@cgknowles