IIIF
Annotation &
Discovery
Michael Appleby
Academic Software
Development,
Yale University
IIIF Ghent
December 8th, 2015
Image: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library,
Yale University

Digitally Enabled Scholarship with
Medieval Manuscripts
• An Edition of Gratian’s Decretum
• Creating English Literature
• A Literary History of the English Book of Hours
• Studying the Book of Hours: Creating Tools for
Scholars and Evaluating Manuscript
Digitization

IIIF Infrastructure
– Projects are using a customized version of Mirador
(v1)
– The research teams are annotating their
manuscripts using a combination of text and tags
– Annotations are stored using the Open Annotation
data model (MongoDB)
– Manifests and images are hosted locally or at
other IIIF institutions (Stanford, Harvard, Oxford)
– Annotation discovery via Blacklight

Gratian’s Decretum
Beginning of Gratian’s Decretum 5.1.2 in three manuscripts

Gratian: Navigate by Citation

Studying the Book of Hours:
Automated Analysis
Beinecke MS 310 35v, annotation of
main text block and individual lines

Codicological Features

Annotating Features, Including
Multispectral Images

Illustrations

Books of Hours: Saint George

Tagging Content
#image #labor_july #leo
#image #intextblock #margaret
#suffrage_margaret

From Tags to Facets
Hierarchical facets in Blacklight
#margaret is mapped to
Subject : Figures : Margaret

Faceted Search

Thank You!
Michael Appleby
Academic Software Development
Yale University Information Technology Services
michael.appleby@yale.edu // @mikeapps
Digitally Enabled Scholarship with Medieval Manuscripts at Yale
Prof. Holly Rushmeier, Computer Science
• Ruggero Pintus, Postdoctoral Associate, Computer Science
• Ying Yang, Postdoctoral Associate, Computer Science
Prof. Barbara A. Shailor, Classics and Medieval Studies
Prof. Jessica Brantley, English
Prof. Alastair Minnis, English
Prof. Ardis Butterfield, English
Prof. Anders Winroth, History