As an end-user, I want to be able to bulk-import items into a viewer from a search results page

[emmastanford]

Description

Using the search tool in Gallica, a user has found six manuscripts that they want to compare in Mirador. Instead of opening up a Mirador instance and adding each manifest separately, they'd like to do one of three things:

• automatically import all the manifests into a Mirador instance with the right number of slots.
• import the manifests as a collection into Mirador.
• add the manifests to a customized version of the "Add item" page in Mirador, so that they can add or remove them as they like.

These manifests could be coming from a general search results list or from a user-created "collection" within a digital librar platform.

Additional Background

Frick Digital Collections already allows users to add items to a personal collection and then open them in a right-sized Mirador container.

[azaroth42]

Considered in scope. Could be implemented by sending a Collection of manifests to the viewer? Or six imports of individual manifests. Exactly what the client does with the manifests is up to the client.

[benwbrum]

I agree with @azaroth42 -- rendering search results as a collection can work really well, as clients which can already consume collections don't have to write any new code.

[beaudet]

Is it documented anywhere which IIIF clients currently support collections or collections of collections?

[benwbrum]

At the moment, I think that Mirador and FromThePage are the only IIIF clients which can consume collections in some way.

[mattmcgrattan]

The Universal Viewer also supports collections, and will render them as part of the table of contents/index.

[jpstroop]

@benwbrum Does Mirador support IIIF collections? This has been a show stopper for us--I guess I should check in!