IIIF and National Library of Wales Newspapers

Glen Robson @glenrobson

Plan

• Introduction to IIIF• The Welsh Newspaper Collection• IIIF & Newspapers• Future possibilities

IIIF Vision

Create a global framework by which image-based resources, both born digital and digitised, can be delivered to the user

• from any participating institution in a standard way • via any compatible image server • for display, manipulation and annotation in any

application, • to any user on the Web...

http://www.slideshare.net/azaroth42/introduction-to-iiif

IIIF Vision

• with tens of millions of images• provided by a community of world-leading

research and cultural heritage institutions• supported by rich and reliable software• that incorporates the best technologies for

image management and delivery• while leveraging global web standards

http://www.slideshare.net/azaroth42/introduction-to-iiif

CommunityNational Libraries• Austria• British Library• France• Denmark• Egypt• Israel• New Zealand• Norway• Poland• Serbia• Vatican• Wales

http://www.slideshare.net/azaroth42/introduction-to-iiif

Research Institutions• C2RMF (France)• Cornell University• Johns Hopkins Univ. • Harvard University • Oxford University• Princeton University• Stanford University• Wellcome Library• Yale University• plus several more

Museums • YCBA• British Museum Aggregators• Artstor• DPLA• Europeana Projects• Biblissima • e-codices• TPEN• TextGrid

Standards

• Defines two standards– Image API– Presentation API– (Annotations) Open Annotations W3C

Image APIhttp://dams.llgc.org.uk/iiif/2.0/image/demo/125,15,120,140/90,/!115/gray.jpg

http://www.slideshare.net/jpstroop/introduction-to-the-iiif-image-api

Image API

Presentation API

• Connect images together into a Manifest

Presentation API (Newspaper Issue / Manifest)

Presentation API (Newspaper Title / Collection)

Presentation API

• JSON-LD (Linked Data)• Just enough information to drive a viewer• Sequences – Collection of pages• Structures – Ranges/Chapters/Articles

Presentation API

What can I do with it?

National Library of Wales

Repository

British LibraryDigital Library

National Library of NorwayRepository

BnFRepository

Image API

Presentation API

MiradorIIIF Viewer

Wellcome/Universal Viewer

IIIF Viewer

Interoperability Example 1

http://stanford.io/1PW789d @glenrobson

Interoperability Example 2

http://projectmirador.org/

Viewers 1

• Developed for the Wellcome Trust by Digirati• Enhanced by the BL• Multilingual – NLW• NLW Default Viewer

Mirador

• Developed by Stanford, Harvard, Princeton, Oxford and BnF

• Side by side comparison, transcription

Annotation (Transcription)

Newspapers

newspapers.library.wales

• 1.1 million IIIF Images• Free Access

Newspapers in IIIF

• Title http://dams.llgc.org.uk/iiif/newspapers/3100020.json• Issuehttp://dams.llgc.org.uk/iiif/newspaper/issue/3100021/manifest.json

• Annotation Listhttp://dams.llgc.org.uk/iiif/3100023/annotation/list/ART9.json

• Pagehttp://dams.llgc.org.uk/iiif/2.0/image/3100023/info.json

Simple Annotation Server• https://github.com/glenrobson/SimpleAnnotationServer• Stores IIIF Annotations• Includes instructions on editing Newspaper OCRhttps://github.com/glenrobson/SimpleAnnotationServer/blob/

master/doc/PopulatingAnnotations.md

IIIF & Newspapers

• What do we hope to get out of it?– New Newspaper Viewer– Reuse of our collections– Integration with other resources– Aid research into our collections

http://dev.llgc.org.uk/iiif/mirador2/newspapers.html

http://showcase.iiif.io/viewer/mirador2/newspapers.html

Developer Friendly (Reuse)

Integration with other Resources

CynefinMaps

1838 to 1947

Newspapers1804 to 1919

Cymru 19141914 to 1918

General Digitisation

Shipping Records1856 to 1914

Crime and Punishment

Database1730 to 1830

Welsh Bibliography0 to 1970

Integration with other Resources

CynefinMaps

1838 to 1947

Newspapers1804 to 1919

Cymru 19141914 to 1918

General Digitisation

Shipping Records1856 to 1914

Crime and Punishment

Database1730 to 1830

Welsh Bibliography0 to 1970

Integration with other Resources

CynefinMaps

1838 to 1947

Newspapers1804 to 1919

Cymru 19141914 to 1918

General Digitisation

Shipping Records1856 to 1914

Crime and Punishment

Database1730 to 1830

Welsh Bibliography0 to 1970

Aid Interlinking

• Build search API• Release as RDF linked data as well as JSON• Look at entity extraction of OCR• User linking?

Summary

• IIIF built for sharing• NLW Public Domain Newspaper content

available as IIIF• Newspapers as a foundation to other

collections• Updates on twitter: @glenrobson