1.
Mirador: A Cross-Repository
Image Comparison and
Annotation Tool
Drew Winget & Rashmi Singhal
Stanford University Libraries, Harvard
December, 2015

2.
Self Portrait, 1659 Portrait of a Young Man, 1646
Portrait of a Young Woman, 1667

3.
Mirador use cases
Comparison
Annotation
Transcription
Instruction
Reunification

4.
Open source
Javascript
Interoperable
Community driven
Extensible
IIIF compatible
OpenAnnotation Compatible

5.
Interoperability and
comparison
• My research concerns the content; I do not
want to be burdened by institutional barriers.
• I want to view objects from multiple
institutions side by side, without significant
friction.
• I want to collect annotations about several
objects in one place.
• I want to be able to refer others to exactly the
thing I am discussing or researching.

6.
“get pixels” via a
simple, RESTful,
web service
Just enough metadata to
drive a remote viewing
experience
Image API Presentation API
IIIF: Two APIs

7.
Compatible Software
IIP Image
IIP Moo Viewer
digilib
FSI Viewer
FSI Server
Wellcome Player Mirador diva.js
Image
Server
s
Image
Clients
Image
Apps
Internet Archive
Book Reader

8.
Compatible Software
IIP Image
IIP Moo Viewer
digilib
FSI Viewer
FSI Server
Wellcome Player
Mirador diva.js
Image
Server
s
Image
Clients
Image
Apps
Internet Archive
Book Reader

9.
Compatible Software
IIP Image
IIP Moo Viewer
digilib
FSI Viewer
FSI Server
Wellcome Player
Mirador diva.js
Image
Server
s
Image
Clients
Image
Apps
Internet Archive
Book Reader

10.
Advanced Applications
• Embed a specific view in another context.
• Tie into internal events to take advantage of
some features while providing a custom
interface to others.
• Seamlessly reconstruct fragmented documents from
dozens of separate sources.

11.
Open source
Javascript
Interoperable
Community driven
Extensible
IIIF compatible
OpenAnnotation Compatible

12.
“Open Source” No, really.
2013-~2014
• Yale and Stanford obtain grant to create Mirador 1
• Chris Jesudeuai and Drew Winget at Stanford, open on github
2014-2015
• Dedicated joint effort by Harvard and Stanford
• Rashmi Singhal joining as a primary developer
• Mirador 2.0 released
• Integration with HarvardX and Harvard Libraries
• Contributions from broader community including Princeton and Biblissima.
2016
NGA + ConservationSpace, EPFL, Yale
Mirador 2.1 - full IIIF feature support (“Shared Canvas”)

13.
Roadmap
Unfinished Business
• Detail images embedded on virtual canvas
• Multiple alternate images overlaid on virtual canvas
• Viewing direction updates
• 2.0 ranges
• Support for IIIF collection browsing
• More robust metadata fields display
• Per-canvas metadata
• Per-resource annotation and metadata display
• Support for blank canvases

14.
http://projectmirador.org
http://github.com/iiif/mirador
http://gitter.im/IIIF/mirador
mirador-tech@googlegroups.com
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