Discovery, Reuse, Research and Crowdsourcing

Glen Robson National Library of Wales

IIIF and NLW

• Why did we need IIIF?• Reuse• Crowdsourcing• Research• Future

Cynefin

cynefin.archiveswales.org.uk

Benefits of IIIF

• No transfer of images• Changes can be made straight away.• No loss of control of images

• Project closes soon!

http://newspapers.library.wales• Open Access• Over 1.1 million IIIF Images

New Catalogue!

• (December 2015)• ExLibris - Primo and Alma

• http://discover.library.wales

• Redevelop our viewers– Replace lots of XSL METS Viewers with one viewer– Access through the Universal Viewer– Over 200,000 manifests– Over 1,109,768 images

http://discover.library.wales

StatsSince the 1st of Jan• 73 million IIIF tile

requests• 374,027 manifest

requests• Other:

– Europeana– ProjectMirador and

various Mirador installs– guillaumedemachaut.com– Chaucer page on Stanford

Website

Journals• Two projects

– JISC funded Modern Welsh Journals• 20th Century • 50 Titles• Articles• In copyright

– Historical Journals• 19th Century• 455 Titles• No Articles• Around 1 million pages

• Developing on top of IIIF– Sitemap of Journal titles– Indexing IIIF Manifests and Collections and EDM– Indexing Annotation Lists to produce Search API

Reuse

• Reuse for research• Reuse to enable better discovery

Interoperable Collections

http://stanford.io/1PW789d

http://stanford.io/1PW789d

http://stanford.io/1PW789d

Aggregators

Content Specific Aggregators

https://dev.musiclibs.net/?q=wales

Newspapers• IIIF Collections, Manifests and annotation lists (pre 1890)• http://dev.llgc.org.uk/wiki/index.php?title=IIIF_Newspapers• IIIF Search API soon• Machine learning

– Welsh Scientists– Crimes

• Data Challenges:– http://dev.llgc.org.uk/wiki/index.php?title=Data_Challenges– Welsh Ships– Image analysis of Cynefin Maps

Crowdsourcing• Engage people with our collections• Make items more discoverable

• Mostly with in person volunteers– Started with spreadsheets

• Aberystywth Shipping Records• Difficult to make data available

– Book of Remembrance – Wales at War– Aberystwyth Student Records

• Some crowd sourced:– Cynefin– Wales 1900

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

http://hdl.handle.net/10107/4642022

Welsh Sailors Lost

Lessons

• Mostly project funded• Need a generic extensible solution• Need to annotate about the image not always inside the

image.• Move from project to program

• Went out to Tender– Digiarti were successful– Prototype end of March– Delivery end of June

Gwilym Livingstone Evans

WW1 Tribunal Records

Thomas Pennant, A tour in Wales1773 - 1776

Named Entity Recognition

Future• Discovery, discovery, discovery

• Aggregating Content– Where can I find IIIF material?– Content based Aggregators?

• Drag and Drop– Comparing Newspaper X with Y

• Change Notification– Transcriptions of our content– Table of contents from Scholars– User driven crowdsourcing

• Tools– Research tools + Machine learning + NLP

• Audio / Visual

Questions

• Twitter: @glenrobson