Stitching Together an Institution with IIIF: an update on IIIF at Harvard Randy Stern, Chip Goines Harvard University IT - Library Technology Services Jeff Emanuel, Jud Harward, Chris Morse, Rashmi Singhal Harvard University IT – Academic Technology Services Bill Stoneman Houghton Library, Harvard Jeff Steward Harvard Art Museums IIIF Conference, The Hague – October 19, 2016 IIIF at Harvard • 2010 Harvard library technologists tracking IIIF • Late 2012 – Focus group of faculty, academic technology, library staff • • • • • • and library technology assess options for a new page turner 2012 – Harvard commits $40M to and funds a IIIF developer 2013 – “The Book: Histories Across Time and Space” begins development 2014 – Harvard Library launches IIIF services for 100,000 books and manuscripts (20M page images) 2015 – “The Book” launches, Art museums IIIF manifest service for 250,000 art objects 2016 – Harvard Library Viewer launches, Image Media Management LTI application launches, Art museums digital tour builder adds Mirador Fall 2016 – Beyond Words, distributed across 3 Boston venues, features tablets with mobile Mirador beside manuscript exhibits so visitors can explore all folios of displayed manuscripts Beyond Words Exhibition Gallery View: Mirador and manuscript side by side Beyond Words Experience • Tablet displays do not distract visitors’ attention from the “real” art • Visitors experience them in two different modes – Codices in display cases emphasize the manuscripts’ materiality and construction – Mirador tablets allow visitors to page through the whole manuscript and to appreciate images and text more clearly though zooming – Students find it easier to transcribe and study the Mirador view of manuscripts • Exhibition of physical manuscripts and digital views complement each other • Harvard Art Museums considering adoption of a similar approach for an exhibition of artists’ sketchbooks. Annotations – a rough typology • “Vetted Annotation” • Stored or linked in the IIIF manifest and therefore managed by the IIIF document object owner • Examples: • Transcriptions • Accepted web mention content • Tables of contents (technically a range) • “Context Annotation” • Linked data that depends on the presentation context as well as the digital object • Library - curated and selected for preservation • Museum - curated and selected for exhibitions • Class – faculty instructional description • “Pedagogical annotation” • Student annotation solicited by teachers, lifetime only duration of a single class • Often intended to generate offline student discussion • “Scholarly annotation” has the longest history but the weakest support • Unpublished working notes on visual material by students or faculty Mirador Context and pedagogical annotation Harvard’s Current Direction • Extend beyond Mirador to create an authoring and collaboration space: a “workspace” for images and related media – Workspace assumes annotation and transcription services – Must permit collaboration and thus requires authentication and authorization – Must support user image collections in combination with IIIF repositories – Supports document (article, book, lecture, catalog) authoring • Using external tools? – Interfaces to standard image discovery mechanisms – Image metadata management harvesting and generation • Adopt Mirador 2.1 • Support the search-within API • Participate in IIIF A/V working group