API request: hook for displaying property values

[eroux]

Here is our use case:

We are dealing with languages that can be displayed in various manners, for instance:

• Tibetan displayed in:
  • Unicode Tibt script
  • EWTS transliteration
  • another transliteration usually used by scholars (which has no name)
• Sanskrit displayed in:
  • various Unicode scripts (Devanagari, Prachalit, and many others)
  • IAST transliteration
  • ISO15919 transliteration
  • (in some cases)Tibetan and the various Tibetan transliterations cited above

We allow our users to specify some preferences and want to display the labels of the manifests in the language and transliteration chosen by the user. We don't want to include all these labels into our manifests because moving from one transliteration to another is a 1:1 translation (and including them all would make our manifests less readable). So we would like to implement the mechanism to display a property value ourselves.

So the request is:

Would it be possible to allow users (in the sense of users of the API) to give Mirador a JavaScript function taking the value of a Property Value and returning the string Mirador should display? That way we would handle all the complexity ourselves.

[eroux]

see also https://github.com/UniversalViewer/universalviewer/issues/646 and https://github.com/DDMAL/diva.js/issues/472

[charbugs]

@eroux Thank you for the request. We're currently about to conceive the external API of Mirador 3 and will consider your use case.

[eroux]

thanks!