John Baker, Managing Director
[email protected]
Tom Crane, Technical Director
[email protected]
Links:
http://player.digirati.co.uk/ikso.html
Background – we built the “DDS”
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Encore (discovery)
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Catalogue
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Membership
The Wellcome Library did not want to
introduce an off-the-shelf “silo” digital
library product
cat record: b18021013
Digital Asset
Management System
(SDB / Preservica)
Digitisation Workflow (Goobi)
METS
b18021013.xml
METS-ALTO
b18021013_001.xml
b18021013_002.xml
b18021013_003.xml
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…and we built a beautiful responsive web
site with our design partners Clearleft
Navigating the site and the
catalogues is a great experience on
all devices
And we made sure the results use desktop
and tablet features – such as mouse wheel…
…keyboard interactions…
…and pinch to zoom on touch devices…
But small devices are a problem. It works,
but…
…a phone is not the best device to study
archive materials on
…if you keep the same UI as a tablet…
We have all these features – but what
should we try to do on a 4 inch screen?
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Deep Zoom
Search within
Bibliographic metadata
Access control
Thumbnails
Standalone player, can be embedded
Audio, video, Born-digital
Embedding:
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http://blog.wellcomelibrary.org/2014/10/a-victorian-lunatic-asylum-begins-to-reveal-its-secrets/
Does there come a point at which we
should cut our losses?
• http://libimages.princeton.edu/osddemo/?feedme=pudl0052%2F6131707%2
F00000001.jp2
• http://oculusdev.harvardx.harvard.edu/manifests/view/
drs:47617540#uuid-9f4cfbf5-9a87-499e8b8d-6b4ab0241b99
British Library requirement
For the Wellcome Library, mobile
optimisation of the site for all devices was
important.
Mobile optimisation of the Player was
important for tablets, but not smaller devices
British Library requirement
British Library has much wider reach, so we will
need to revisit our approach to mobile
• Simplify UI
• Avoid multiple panels
• Strip right down to deep-zoom only
• Maybe there is no ideal solution – sometimes
you really do need a 30 inch monitor
IIIF at BL and Wellcome
International Image
Interoperability Framework
http://iiif.io/
IIIF
• We’re interested in it because we support
it as a standard for viewers and servers
• But it also offers a foundation to build
responsive image solutions
• Great if all cultural heritage institutions
make their image resources available in
this way