Complex books that can contain other books

[glenrobson]

As noted on the IIIF call this currently isn't working:

https://archive.org/details/BollettiniEcn/

Seems to only show the first item:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/BollettiniEcn/manifest.json

[digitaldogsbody]

Complex item that also has things in subdirectories: https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/mareful/manifest.json

Mike to write the subdirectory thing up in more detail here

[digitaldogsbody]

So for the item above, there are multiple jp2 zipfiles both at the top level, and also in a subdirectory:

Root level: https://archive.org/download/mareful/Maariful-Quran-01%28Almodina.com%29_jp2.zip/ Subdir (new): https://archive.org/download/mareful/new/mareful-quran-01-new-edition_jp2.zip/

Cantaloupe is able to provide images (and info.json etc) for all of these, you just need to encode the directory path after the item name: Root level: https://iiif.archive.org/image/iiif/3/mareful%2fMaariful-Quran-03(Almodina.com)_jp2.zip%2FMaariful-Quran-03(Almodina.com)_jp2%2fMaariful-Quran-03(Almodina.com)_0013.jp2/info.json Subdir: https://iiif.archive.org/image/iiif/3/mareful%2fnew%2Fmareful-quran-08-new-edition_jp2.zip%2Fmareful-quran-08-new-edition_jp2%2Fmareful-quran-08-new-edition_0921.jp2/info.json

So in theory it's not a problem for us to get these items into a manifest, but probably a question of approach. My initial thinking is that the logic for triggering is something like: if mediatype == 'texts' and count_of_originals > 1, and that we could consider returning a Collection instead of a manifest, with one manifest for each item. However, this means we will need to adapt the manifest generation code to handle multiple manifests per item, which might be awkward.

The other option could be to have the same triggering logic, and instead produce a single manifest with every page (for this item it will be monstrously big!!) and add Range objects for each individual item within.

Thoughts very much welcome!

[glenrobson]

This seems like a collection. Will need to sort something as it will be /manifest.json, maybe we could forward to collection.json.

[glenrobson]

Maybe add it to isCollection code.

[glenrobson]

Discussed this today and Sara and Ben convinced Glen that it should be a single manifest with a structure because there is no metadata for each individual item metadata.

The test to see if this falls into this use case, is if there are multiple image zip files then include all the images in the manifest and a range per zip file.

[digitaldogsbody]

I think we can duplicate the metadata. The example item I am using (mareful) has 14,611 images across the various JP2 zipfiles. Do we really want to make a manifest with that many canvases? Will it work in any viewers without exploding?

[glenrobson]

Due to scale back to collections again. Copy all metadata use filename as label. Work on the seeAlso and rendering to only link to relevant files.

[glenrobson]

Multi Volume: https://iiif.io/api/cookbook/recipe/0030-multi-volume/

[saracarl]

We should also test this with the following item (of multiple pdfs and jpgs): https://archive.org/details/st-anthony-relics-01/