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6 years ago A second related idea we are looking at is user created shareable tag driven IIIF manifests. User created as opposed to project or archival created, though these are also important. Would probably want an authorship label in the manifest metadata to show author.
Users LOVE personal and themed boards. Witness Pinterest. But our concept is to make the boards or manifests independent of viewing platform. So you could view through any IIIF compatible viewer, such as Universal Viewer or Mirador, not be forced to cut and paste your favourite playbills from @alexandermendes LibCrowds developed at the British Library Your tags and ideally your and other people's semantic annotations would be available through your chosen IIIF viewer for interrogation.
- BL; Stadsarchief Amsterdam; Jo Bloggs
How would it work? Here is an example: a user could select the tags:
- lighterman + thames + wapping + signoff
This would generate a manifest containing all IIIF served images containing those tags.
We would have a simple pre-specified ontology of tags. In this case lighterman is in the class of the tag ocupation; thames is in the class of the tag place of work; wapping is in the class of the tag place of residence; signoff is a class tag.
The class tag signoff would contain four primary component or base tags. They would be
- marke; initial; initials; signature
The ontology of the place of residence class tag is more complex, since in our case it needs to allow for
- streets; sub-parish; parish; town/city; county; region; country; continent [ignoring for the moment the need to handle different geographic nesting structures in different countries]
Because Signs of Literacy intends to be a comparative multi-country user driven community with multiple archival contributors of images and a mixture of general public and academic users, we need to think carefully about the conceptual design of the above.
We also need to think through the relationship between tags and annotations. As we engage with the IIIF consortium, with the help of IIIF technical cordinator Glen Robson and with the help of the Recogito annotation platform team, we hope to develop this thinking.
We would love to involve LibCrowds in this discussion and to learn from your experience and experimentation with tag driven IIIF manifests.
I would be delighted to include tag driven IIIF manifests as a specific discussion point on the agenda of our technical tools for exploring historical literacy workshop on June 5th 2018 in Amsterdam.
MarineLives & Signs of Literacy (our new community to study historical literacy is doing some serious thinking about creating IIIF manifests to display markes, initials and signatures contained in manuscript pages. The functionality we are interested in is to be able to display text areas (or image areas) within a manuscript image and/or its matching full text transcription which contain relevant markes, initials and signatures, as well as to display the whole image page or whole matching full text transcription page. We want to be able to create IIIF manifests, which will pull up relevant markes, initials and signatures from multiple institutions with IIIF servers and content. For example the British Library and the Stadsarchief Amsterdam.
We are thinking how to semantically annotate or tag the images or text pages, and the specific image or text regions within the whole pages, so that manifests can be created.
The sort of tags or annotations we are thinking of are simple
e.g. Occupation [wine cooper; mariner; shipwright] e.g. Type of signoff [marke; initial(s); signature] e.g. Place of residence [e.g. Wapping; Cadiz] e.g. Date of signoff [e.g. March 13th, 1629]
A specific signoff (marke, initial or signature) could have multiple tages, e.g. text reading "Jo Bloggs, mariner, living in Wapping, aged 23" in a deposition dated March 13th 1629 could be tagged
mariner; Wapping; age 23; 1629
Our application envisages dealing with tens of thousands of legal records from the English High Court of Admiralty (TNA) and the Amsterdam notarial archives (Stadsarchief Amsterdam). Probably a minimum of 50,000 images, but could be many more.
We want to be able to crowdsource the tagging of the signoffs, having used Transkribus, with its line and taxt area recognition capability (or some other technology) to create an XML pixel level map of where the signoff is on the page of the manuscript.
The tagging data, in the case of a High Court of Admiralty deposition, will actually be derived from the start of the deposition, which could be up to three or five pages before, though it is usually on the same page, with the signoff at the end of the deposition.
Prior to crowdsourcing this tagging, we would want to take all the admiralty court and notarial images and upload them to one or more IIIF servers.
That's how far we have got. I have had an initial discussion with Digirati about this, but have parked the discussion for the moment, lacking funding. I will be giving a paper at the IIIF Washington DC conference, May 21-25th, at which I will be laying out a vision for greater integration of IIIF and Transkribus ecosystems, and making a pitch for the development of the above functionality I have described.
I would be very interested to hear the Signsofliteracy community's thoughts on this, and to see what sort of design solutions you come up with. We have some interest from the Technical Director of Pelagios/Recogito, @rsimon at the Austrian Institute of Technology, for this sort of functionality.