„Simple Access to Cultural Heritage Assets” (SACHA) https://www.onb.ac.at/forschung/forschungsaktivitaeten/sacha/

1. Can Yilmaz (ONB/OeAW)
SACHA
Simple Access to Cultural Heritage
Assets
15-7 June 2017
2017 IIIF Conference - The
Vatican

2. Can Yilmaz (ONB/OeAW)
SACHA
• Improve access to culturally relevant data for
scientific use
• Cooperation project with Austrian National
Library (ONB) and Austrian Center for Digital
Humanities (ACDH)
• Pilot Project for IIIF at ONB
• Digitized content comes from Austrian Books
Online project
• Plans to include other digitized content
25-7 June 2017
2017 IIIF Conference - The
Vatican

3. Can Yilmaz (ONB/OeAW) 3
Austrian National Library (ONB)
5-7 June 2017
2017 IIIF Conference - The
Vatican

4. Can Yilmaz (ONB/OeAW)
Austrian National Library (ONB)
• Central academic library of the Republic of
Austria dating back to the 14th century.
• Holds a significant part of the world‘s printed
cultural heritage.
• Acknowledged Centre of Excellence in digital
preservation.
• Makes large quantities of digital objects
accessible.
45-7 June 2017
2017 IIIF Conference - The
Vatican

5. Can Yilmaz (ONB/OeAW)
Austrian Centre for Digital
Humanities (ACDH)
• Formally founded on 01.01.2015 as an institute
under the Austrian Academy of Sciences
• Supports digital humanities, fostering digital
methods by:
o building up digital infrastructures
o developing technical tools and services
o hosting and publishing digital data
o intensifying knowledge transfer
55-7 June 2017
2017 IIIF Conference - The
Vatican

6. Can Yilmaz (ONB/OeAW) 6
Austrian Books Online (ABO)
5-7 June 2017
2017 IIIF Conference - The
Vatican

7. Can Yilmaz (ONB/OeAW)
Austrian Books Online (ABO)
• Public Private Partnership
with Google
• ONB digitises its complete
historic book holdings
(1501-1877)
– About 600.000 individual
books
– With about 200.000.000
pages
• About 430.000 digitized
books already online
75-7 June 2017
2017 IIIF Conference - The
Vatican

8. Can Yilmaz (ONB/OeAW)
IIIF in use
• In SACHA:
– IIIF Image Server (API)
– IIIF Presentation API
• Not (yet) in SACHA:
– IIIF Search API
– IIIF Authentication API
• Our development focus:
– Collections
85-7 June 2017
2017 IIIF Conference - The
Vatican

9. Can Yilmaz (ONB/OeAW)
Why Collections?
• Basis: a very large set of digitized objects
• Users:
– Have different research focuses
– Should be able to independently build their own
collections
– Should be able to personalize collections according to
their research needs
• No pre-defined collections
95-7 June 2017
2017 IIIF Conference - The
Vatican

10. Can Yilmaz (ONB/OeAW)
Technical Aspects
• Web Application developed mainly in Java
• Provides a GUI (homepage and viewers) and a
RESTful Web Service
• IIIF Image API: Dockerized IIIFServer
• IIIF Presentation API: Jersey RESTful Web
Service
• Two Viewers available:
– Dockerized Mirador Instance
– Embedded Universal Viewer Instance
105-7 June 2017
2017 IIIF Conference - The
Vatican

11. Can Yilmaz (ONB/OeAW)
Manifests
• Barcode as unique identifier of digitized object
• Generated automatically from:
– bibliographic metadata from library
catalogue
– structural metadata from digitization process
115-7 June 2017
2017 IIIF Conference - The
Vatican

12. Can Yilmaz (ONB/OeAW)
The GUI
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13. Can Yilmaz (ONB/OeAW)
Collections
• No pre-defined collections (yet)
• Dynamic
• Personalized
• Users can create collections by:
– adding them to collection manually
– results of a search query
– combination of both
• Users can edit and delete collections
135-7 June 2017
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14. Can Yilmaz (ONB/OeAW) 145-7 June 2017
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15. Can Yilmaz (ONB/OeAW)
How to access SACHA:
• Homepage: http://fue.onb.ac.at/sacha/
• Documentation:
http://fue.onb.ac.at/sacha/services/api/
155-7 June 2017
2017 IIIF Conference - The
Vatican

16. Can Yilmaz (ONB/OeAW)
Contact
• Project Team:
– Can Özgür Yilmaz: can.yilmaz@onb.ac.at
– Georg Petz: georg.petz@onb.ac.at
– Christiane Fritze: christiane.fritze@onb.ac.at
– Max Kaiser: max.kaiser@onb.ac.at
• Issues and Bugs: sacha@onb.ac.at
165-7 June 2017
2017 IIIF Conference - The
Vatican

17. Can Yilmaz (ONB/OeAW)
Demo Session
• We will be at 16:00 in Room 3.
• We would appreciate your comments, feedback
and suggestions.
175-7 June 2017
2017 IIIF Conference - The
Vatican

18. Can Yilmaz (ONB/OeAW)
Thank you!
185-7 June 2017
2017 IIIF Conference - The
Vatican

19. Can Yilmaz (ONB/OeAW)
Resources
• https://www.onb.ac.at/
• http://www.oeaw.ac.at/acdh
• http://iiif.io/
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Image_Interoperabilit
y_Framework
• https://www.onb.ac.at/en/digital-library-catalogues/austrian-
books-online-abo/
• https://www.iiifserver.com/
• Dockerized Image Server: https://github.com/ONB-RD/iiifserver-
docker
• Dockerized Mirador Viewer: https://github.com/ONB-
RD/mirador-docker
195-7 June 2017
2017 IIIF Conference - The
Vatican