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Add "bnlviewer" to METS tools page #8

Closed thabing closed 9 years ago

thabing commented 9 years ago

I’m responsible for digitization at the national library of Luxembourg, as well as our delivery platform. We are using METS/ALTO for digitizing newspapers, postcards, posters, manuscripts and books and have developed our own viewer for displaying METS/ALTO objects on the web. This viewer is open source and is currently also used by the national library of Latvia and the university library of Belgrade in Serbia. I think it would also be interesting to list it on the METS tools page at http://www.loc.gov/standards/mets/mets-tools.html under the METS Presentation (non-commercial) heading.

The software is called “bnlviewer” and it’s main page is at sourceforge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/bnlviewer/

Here is the short description from the sourceforge page: Viewer for METS (http://www.loc.gov/standards/mets/) files with OCR files in the ALTO format. The viewer needs a tomcat application server to run in. It can be deployed so that it reads the METS files from a local folder. Its main use is for digitized newspapers and postcards but can be adapted to other METS profiles as well. The viewer can be seen in action at: http://www.eluxemburgensia.lu

I would be grateful if you could add it.

thabing commented 9 years ago

Hi Tom,

Great, thanks a lot for the fast action. It's always nice to see the care you take with the site. I do use it quite a bit (especially the METS profiles and the documentation are quite helpful).

I just noticed that the link underneath "bnlviewer" currently leads to the METS navigator page. Could you point that to sourceforge.net/projects/bnlviewer please?

Best Regards,

Yves