Tools voor Digital Humanities - Een hoge resolutie viewer voor onderzoek naar manuscripten

Tools voor Digital Humanities
Een hoge resolutie viewer voor onderzoek naar manuscripten Roxanne Wyns
Business Consultant Heron

LIBIS @ KU Leuven
• Division of Leuven Research and Development (LRD)
• Part of the University Library
• Information solutions for GLAM and digitally supported
research
⁻ Information management systems, research databases, …
⁻ Apps, end-user experiences
⁻ Visualization tools
⁻ Standards and data interoperability services
⁻ Long-term preservation & accessibility of digital material
⁻ …
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Digital Humanities @ KU Leuven
• Digital Humanities
– Uses of digital tools and IT techniques to enhance research in the
domain of humanities and social sciences
– Combines classic methodologies with IT applications like data
visualization or data & text mining
• Emerging and hot: Digital Humanities summer school, new
Master starting, member of DARIAH-VL together with UGent
and UAntwerp
• LIBIS provides technical support as part of our ‘Services for
researchers’
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IDEM project
Alamire Foundation
Requirements and selection of tools
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IDEM project – Alamire Foundation
• Alamire =
– International Centre for the Study of Music in the Low Countries
– Digitize medieval music manuscripts at high resolution (80 - 100
million pixels) for research
• Integrated Database for Early Music (IDEM) project
requirements:
– Data model and query options
– Collaboration with other researchers
– Long term preservation of content
– High resolution viewer!
http://www.alamirefoundation.org/
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IDEM project – Alamire Foundation
• Proposal prepared in collaboration with LIBIS (Flemish Hercules
infrastructure call, September 2013)
• Kick-off summer 2014, launch of IDEM summer 2015
• Project funding:
– Main budget preserved for storage & long term preservation
– Limited resources for database, website, and viewer
– Currently no budget for post-project maintenance
This influenced the selection of tools
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Decision to:
Reuse a combination of existing tools in a flexible way
Use open source where possible to limit the license costs
Share development costs with projects with similar interests
CollectiveAccess, Omeka, Rosetta, IIIF Mirador viewer
Inform partner:
Limitations and what they can expect
Open source doesn’t means free
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CollectiveAccess
• Web application
• For describing all manner of things
• Flexible data modeling
• User friendly, without custom programming
• Extended rights management options suitable for collaboration
• Open source
IDEM database - access on request: http://www.idemdatabase.org/collectiveaccess/
About CollectiveAccess: http://www.heron-net.be/heron/collectiveaccess ;
http://www.collectiveaccess.org/ ; https://github.com/collectiveaccess
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Academic metadata
Access to images

Omeka
• Flexible web publishing platform for GLAM, scholarly collections
and virtual exhibitions
• User friendly back-end
• Lot’s of plug-ins
• Focused on publishing items metadata and content
• Mostly trying to attract the attention of a wider audience
• Open source and a strong developer community
IDEM website: http://www.idemdatabase.org/
About Omeka: http://www.heron-net.be/heron/omeka ; http://www.omeka.org/ ;
https://github.com/omeka/Omeka
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http://www.idemdatabase.org/
Basic metadata
Access to images

Visualization requirements
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Visualization requirements
• Giving access to high resolution images in a novel way
– Quick, without loss of quality (JPEG2000)
– Easy navigation within manuscript
– Full screen, tool bars should take up limited space
– Extensive zooming options in a single and fluid movement,
focused on selected area
– Compare folio’s from different manuscripts in a single view
– Illegal download protection, watermarks
– ...
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Selection of IIIF Mirador viewer
• Virtual Vellum prototype image viewer suggested by Alamire
– Developed by University of Sheffield
– Issues: no updates since 2008, Java development
• Suggestion by LIBIS to use IIIF/Mirador instead
• Some remarks on demo version tested by Alamire (v. 0.9.0,
http://showcase.iiif.io/viewer/mirador/):
Mayor:
Endless pop-ups
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Mayor:
Endless pop-ups
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Mayor:
Endless pop-ups
Limited full screen view
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Mayor:
Endless pop-ups
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Mayor:
Endless pop-ups
Minor:
Issues with Internet Explorer
Limitation on zoom function
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http://iiif.io

Final adaptations and bug-fixes
• Small adaptations to comply to Alamire requirements
– ‘Save as’ function disabled to prevent easy download
– Tool & lay-out ribbons minimized
• Version 2.0 release issues and configuration problems fixed
IDEM website & database launched on August 17th
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Mirador in action - DEMO
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Single object view
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Full screen view
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Other view options
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Book view (simultaneous scroll options)
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Compare objects
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Library overview
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Compare objects
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Compare objects
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Composite libraries
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Manifest Yale manuscript: http://manifests.ydc2.yale.edu/manifest/Admont43

Future plans with IIIF & Mirador
• Implementation of access rights control
• Implement IIPImage server more widely to create manifestation
and watermarks on the fly instead during ingest
• Simultaneous view of image, transcriptions and annotations (by
getting metadata out of Rosetta web service methods)
• Adding multispectral view support to Mirador (e.g.
IIPMooViewer)
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Information.
Inspiration.
Innovation.
Roxanne Wyns, Business Consultant Heron
Roxanne.Wyns@libis.kuleuven.be
www.libis.be / www.kuleuven.be
Thank you !
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