The document discusses the implementation and benefits of IIIF (International Image Interoperability Framework) at the National Library of Wales, highlighting its role in image reuse, research, and crowdsourcing. It mentions the availability of over 1.1 million IIIF images, various projects, and the use of machine learning for enhancing discovery and engagement with collections. Future plans include expanding content aggregation and improving tools for user-driven crowdsourcing and research.

1. Discovery, Reuse, Research and
Crowdsourcing
Glen Robson
National Library of Wales

2. IIIF and NLW
• Why did we need IIIF?
• Reuse
• Crowdsourcing
• Research
• Future

3. Cynefin
cynefin.archiveswales.org.uk

8. Benefits of IIIF
• No transfer of images
• Changes can be made straight away.
• No loss of control of images
• Project closes soon!

9. http://newspapers.library.wales
• Open Access
• Over 1.1 million IIIF Images

11. New Catalogue!
• (December 2015)
• ExLibris - Primo and Alma
• http://discover.library.wales
• Redevelop our viewers
– Replace lots of XSL METS Viewers with one viewer
– Access through the Universal Viewer
– Over 200,000 manifests
– Over 1,109,768 images

12. http://discover.library.wales

14. Stats
Since the 1st of Jan
• 73 million IIIF tile
requests
• 374,027 manifest
requests
• Other:
– Europeana
– ProjectMirador and
various Mirador installs
– guillaumedemachaut.c
om
– Chaucer page on
Stanford Website

17. Journals
• Two projects
– JISC funded Modern Welsh Journals
• 20th Century
• 50 Titles
• Articles
• In copyright
– Historical Journals
• 19th Century
• 455 Titles
• No Articles
• Around 1 million pages
• Developing on top of IIIF
– Sitemap of Journal titles
– Indexing IIIF Manifests and Collections and EDM
– Indexing Annotation Lists to produce Search API

24. Reuse
• Reuse for research
• Reuse to enable better discovery

25. Interoperable Collections
http://stanford.io/1PW789d

26. http://stanford.io/1PW789d

27. http://stanford.io/1PW789d

28. Aggregators

29. Content Specific Aggregators
https://dev.musiclibs.net/?q=wales

31. Newspapers
• IIIF Collections, Manifests and annotation lists (pre 1890)
• http://dev.llgc.org.uk/wiki/index.php?title=IIIF_Newspapers
• IIIF Search API soon
• Machine learning
– Welsh Scientists
– Crimes
• Data Challenges:
– http://dev.llgc.org.uk/wiki/index.php?title=Data_Challenges
– Welsh Ships
– Image analysis of Cynefin Maps

32. Crowdsourcing
• Engage people with our collections
• Make items more discoverable
• Mostly with in person volunteers
– Started with spreadsheets
• Aberystywth Shipping Records
• Difficult to make data available
– Book of Remembrance
– Wales at War
– Aberystwyth Student Records
• Some crowd sourced:
– Cynefin
– Wales 1900

33. Simple Annotation Server
• https://github.com/glenrobson/SimpleAnnotationServer
• Stores IIIF Annotations
• Includes instructions on editing Newspaper OCR

34. http://hdl.handle.net/10107/4642022

40. Welsh Sailors Lost

42. Lessons
• Mostly project funded
• Need a generic extensible solution
• Need to annotate about the image not always
inside the image.
• Move from project to program
• Went out to Tender
– Digiarti were successful
– Prototype end of March
– Delivery end of June

43. Gwilym Livingstone Evans

44. WW1 Tribunal
Records

45. Thomas Pennant, A tour in Wales
1773 - 1776

46. Named Entity Recognition

48. Future
• Discovery, discovery, discovery
• Aggregating Content
– Where can I find IIIF material?
– Content based Aggregators?
• Drag and Drop
– Comparing Newspaper X with Y
• Change Notification
– Transcriptions of our content
– Table of contents from Scholars
– User driven crowdsourcing
• Tools
– Research tools + Machine learning + NLP
• Audio / Visual

49. Questions
• Twitter: @glenrobson