Presented at the International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) 2017 Conference in The Vatican. In an effort to provide users with a new way to browse and explore archival collections, the Getty Research Institute is building a prototype for a Digital Archival Navigation Application (DANA) that utilizes IIIF. However, because the majority of our collections are only partially digitized, and because of the idiosyncratic way that our digital items are created and deposited into our preservation system, creating IIIF presentation documents has proved to be a worthy challenge. After much discussion, we arrived at a solution for the prototype that involved merging metadata from EAD (in ArchivesSpace) and METS (in Rosetta) to generate IIIF collection and manifest documents representing the Harald Szeemann papers. This complex solution, which already makes heavy use of IIIF ranges, also opens up the possibility of allowing users to split existing digital objects, which are sometimes comprised of thousands of images, into more granular objects by allowing them to create additional ranges within DANA. This presentation will provide a detailed look at both the problem and the solution and invite feedback from the community.

1. EAD + METS = IIIF
Representing Digitized and Non-Digitized Archival Content
for the Getty Research Institute’s Digital Archival
Navigation Application Prototype
Alyx Rossetti, Software Engineer, Getty Research Institute

2. Overview
■ How do cultural heritage institutions allow users to explore
archival collections on the Web? What does the GRI do now?
■ Can we do better? About DANA: Project Description and Goals
■ EAD + METS = IIIF
■ Current challenges and next steps

3. How do we explore archival collections
on the Web??

4. How does the GRI do it now?
Start with CIFA

5. …to Primo (Discovery Layer)

6. …to the Rosetta Viewer

7. …to a single image in the Rosetta Viewer

8. Digital Archival Navigation Application
(DANA)
Finding Aids
Digital Collections

9. MoSCoW: What must, should, could,
and won’t DANA do?

10. Two systems of record

11. EAD + METS = IIIF
IIIF
Collection
Generator
IIIF Manifest
Generator
ASpace
Rosetta
IIIF
Collections
IIIF
Manifests
MDM JP2s
Fetches EAD via API
Fetches METS via API
Walks tree of EAD creating Collections
for every component until it reaches a
DAO or the bottom level of a hierarchy
At the bottom level of a hierarchy,
makes a Manifest
If a component has a DAO, check for
children and update ranges with
metadata from EAD
Creates a
Manifest for a
given intellectual
entity
Walks tree of
structMap and
queues calls to
MDM
Fetches TIFF from
Rosetta and creates JP2

12. Workflow Changes

13. Empty Manifests

14. DANA Wireframes – Collection Browser

15. DANA Design Comps
– Item Detail Pages

16. What’s Next?
■ Authorization / access / rights workflows
■ Finish building Getty-wide IIIF infrastructure
■ Finish building UI
■ Provide prototype for use by the participants of the GRI’s
Szeemann Digital Seminar this Fall
■ Analyze feedback from users, reprioritize goals, plan for
Phase 2 and beyond

17. Thank You!!
Alyx Rossetti
arossetti@getty.edu
iiif Slack: @arossetti

18. Image Credits
■ SLIDE 3
– Icons made by Linh Pham from www.flaticon.com
– Artists’ files in Harald Szeemann’s archives. Photo: © 2011 J. Paul Trust
– The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography
Collection, The New York Public Library. "Reading Room in Rotunda, Library of
Congress, Washington, D. C." New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed
May 24, 2017. http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47d9-9ab8-a3d9-e040-
e00a18064a99
■ SLIDE 8
– The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography
Collection, The New York Public Library. "Silos. Beltsville, Maryland." New York Public
Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 23, 2017.
http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/ba309cea-90f5-4288-e040-
e00a18066c61