Discovery and Use of Images in the Biblissima Portal

Providing Access to Medieval and Renaissance Books via IIIF

Régis ROBINEAU@regisrob

2017 IIIF Conference

Institutum Patristicum Augustinianum, The Vatican - June 7th, 2017

@biblissima

The Biblissima portal in a nutshell

➔ Focus: history of collections / transmission of texts in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance

➔ aggregates specialized data on medieval manuscripts and early printed books

➔ search, browse, visualize

(Heidelberg, Universitätsbibliothek, Cod. Pal. lat. 864)

IIIF Collection URL

IIIF contents in the portal

➔ 2347 books available via IIIF (May 2017)

➔ Providers:◆ Gallica, BVMM

◆ + BAV, BSB, Archive.org, Harvard University, e-codices, Universität Heidelberg, Numistral, World Digital Library

➔ Licenses (beta.biblissima.fr/en/licences)

DemoPlutarch’s “Lives”

(“Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans”)

Video: https://youtu.be/bAIDngKRp1g

beta.biblissima.fr

Feedback welcome!team@biblissima-condorcet.fr

Grazie mille!

@biblissimabiblissima.fr

IIIF delectatio !

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Biblissima Team