The Digital Tools for Manuscript Study project aims to build open, modular tool environments to support image-based scholarly research. Our work involves integrating Omeka, an open-source platform for digital exhibits; Mirador, a IIIF-compliant image viewer developed at Stanford; and VisColl, a tool for the visualization of book structure. Our specific objective is to situate these tools within the International Image Interoperability Framework. By making these existing and easy-to-use tools IIIF compliant, we hope to grow IIIF's capacity to share cultural heritage images and expose them to new kinds of inquiry. Our work on this project is guided by our team's broader digital humanities research and development practices. Audience members will learn about the IIIF specification and how it has been integrated into popular research tools using a collaborative and user-centered approach to development and design. Intended for librarians, archivists, developers, and researchers.

1. Omeka, Mirador and Viscoll:
Developing modular, interoperable
tools with IIIF
Alexandra Bolintineanu and Rachel Di Cresce
DPLAfest 2017
https://digitaltoolsmss.library.utoronto.ca/

2. In Its depths I saw contained,
bound by love in one volume,
the scattered leaves of all the universe.
Dante Alighieri, Paradiso, Canto XXXIII

4. 1598 Survey of L
John Stow (1505-1625)

5. • 93 MSS, 24 Printed Books (117 books total)
• 64 MSS positively attributed to Stow

7. Omeka – Roy Rosenzweig Institute for
History and New Media Studies

9. Users can curate
collections of
digital items
Collections

10. • Already widely
adopted
• Mellon Award for
Technology
Collaboration
(2008)
• Vibrant, supportive
user community
Community

12. • Emerging international
standard
• Consistent digital image
delivery and annotation across
multiple digital libraries
IIIF (International Image
Interoperability Framework)

16. [E]ven doorknobs have politics in that they may be round, requiring a human hand to
turn them, or shaped as levers, such that a person with a prosthetic limb or an armload
of groceries with one free elbow can still successfully use them. This is more than
simply a matter of utility. Both designs are political in that they presume and construct
different kinds of worlds, with the round doorknob presuming a world in which
everyone’s bodies are the same, and in which hands with opposable thumbs and
sufficient grip strength are always available…
(Alan Galey & Stan Rucker, “How A Prototype Argues”)

20. IIIF - The underpinnings
Content
Repo.
Content
Repo.
Content
Repo.
IIIF Image
Server
IIIF Image
Client
Technical Stack Specifications
Image API
Pres. API
Auth. API
Search
API
Image
Delivery
Structure/
Layout
Access
Control
Search within
IIIF content

21. Scholarly needs: low friction
Elco van Staveren, Europeana
Cloud, 2014
https://flic.kr/p/o1fHAM

22. IIIF Manifest
Metadata about
manifest
Metadata about object
Order of
canvases
Other
content ex.
Annotations

23. Use Cases
Wall monument of John Stow,
St Andrew Undershaft, St Mary
Axe, EC2
http://www.geograph.org.uk/pho
to/1491412
13v and 14r, MS
152, Bodleian
Library.

24. Omeka: collecting and sharing

25. Plugging IIIF into Omeka

26. IIIF and Omeka

27. Ingesting a Manifest

28. Ingesting a Manifest

29. Mirador: Viewing manuscripts

30. Working with manuscripts
Viewing
annotations
Editing
annotations

31. Working with Manuscripts
Browse
manuscript
collections
Search and
edit tags
(items)

32. Exhibiting Manuscripts

33. Neatline Integration

34. Visualizing Collations: Viscoll

35. Viscoll

36. Collation

37. Canterbury Christ Church MS152
41v
(end of
quire 5)
42r
(beginning
of quire 6)

38. API: from scholar to community

39. IIIF to go
PWhite23, Phone Bloks, Nov
1 2013
https://prestonwhiteuo.wordpr
ess.com/2013/11/01/phone-bl
oks-blog-11/

40. In Its depths I saw contained,
bound by love in one volume,
the scattered leaves of all the universe.
Dante Alighieri, Paradiso, Canto XXXIII

42. We are very grateful to:
The Mirador
team &
community
The
VisColl
team
The IIIF
Foundation &
community
The Omeka
team &
community