11. New Catalogue!
• (December 2015)
• ExLibris - Primo and Alma
• http://discover.library.wales
• Redevelop our viewers
– Replace lots of XSL METS Viewers with one viewer
– Access through the Universal Viewer
– Over 200,000 manifests
– Over 1,109,768 images
14. Stats
Since the 1st of Jan
• 73 million IIIF tile
requests
• 374,027 manifest
requests
• Other:
– Europeana
– ProjectMirador and
various Mirador installs
– guillaumedemachaut.c
om
– Chaucer page on
Stanford Website
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17. Journals
• Two projects
– JISC funded Modern Welsh Journals
• 20th Century
• 50 Titles
• Articles
• In copyright
– Historical Journals
• 19th Century
• 455 Titles
• No Articles
• Around 1 million pages
• Developing on top of IIIF
– Sitemap of Journal titles
– Indexing IIIF Manifests and Collections and EDM
– Indexing Annotation Lists to produce Search API
31. Newspapers
• IIIF Collections, Manifests and annotation lists (pre 1890)
• http://dev.llgc.org.uk/wiki/index.php?title=IIIF_Newspapers
• IIIF Search API soon
• Machine learning
– Welsh Scientists
– Crimes
• Data Challenges:
– http://dev.llgc.org.uk/wiki/index.php?title=Data_Challenges
– Welsh Ships
– Image analysis of Cynefin Maps
32. Crowdsourcing
• Engage people with our collections
• Make items more discoverable
• Mostly with in person volunteers
– Started with spreadsheets
• Aberystywth Shipping Records
• Difficult to make data available
– Book of Remembrance
– Wales at War
– Aberystwyth Student Records
• Some crowd sourced:
– Cynefin
– Wales 1900
33. Simple Annotation Server
• https://github.com/glenrobson/SimpleAnnotationServer
• Stores IIIF Annotations
• Includes instructions on editing Newspaper OCR
42. Lessons
• Mostly project funded
• Need a generic extensible solution
• Need to annotate about the image not always
inside the image.
• Move from project to program
• Went out to Tender
– Digiarti were successful
– Prototype end of March
– Delivery end of June
48. Future
• Discovery, discovery, discovery
• Aggregating Content
– Where can I find IIIF material?
– Content based Aggregators?
• Drag and Drop
– Comparing Newspaper X with Y
• Change Notification
– Transcriptions of our content
– Table of contents from Scholars
– User driven crowdsourcing
• Tools
– Research tools + Machine learning + NLP
• Audio / Visual
Crowd sourcing application developed with Klokan Technologies
Georeference Tithe maps from the 1800s
Transcribe Apportionments
Share images and metadata to Kolkan through IIIF.