Presentation at out reach event in Rijksmuseum.

1. IIIF and NLW
National Library of Wales
Glen Robson
Head of Systems
@glenrobson

5. IIIF and NLW
• Started 2.5 years ago
• IIIF for the NLW
– Maps
– Newspapers
– Annotation
– Viewers – Photographs, Manuscripts, Archives
• Multilingualism

6. Cynefin
cynefin.archiveswales.org.uk

11. Benefits of IIIF
• No transfer of images
• Changes can be made straight away.
• No loss of control of images
• Project closes in March!

16. http://newspapers.library.wales
• Open Access
• Over 1.1 million IIIF Images

18. Wales for Peace
• HLF project to commemorate the fallen in
World War 1
• Transcription of the Welsh Book of
Remembrance
• In person Volunteers rather than Crowd
Sourced
• Project run by the Welsh Centre for
International Affairs
– http://www.wcia.org.uk/walesforpeace.html

19. http://hdl.handle.net/10107/4642022

22. Simple Annotation Server
• https://github.com/glenrobson/SimpleAnnotationServer
• Works with Mirador
• Stores Annotations as Linked Open Data using
Open Annotations
• Uses either JENA or Seasame (rdf4j.org) as a
triple store
• Now supports SOLR and the IIIF Search API

23. http://hdl.handle.net/10107/4642022

24. http://hdl.handle.net/10107/4642022

26. Newspapers

27. New Catalogue!
• (December 2015)
• ExLibris - Primo and Alma
• http://discover.library.wales
• Redevelop our viewers
– Access through the Universal Viewer
– Over 200,000 manifests
– Over 1,109,768 images

28. http://discover.library.wales

30. Multilingualism
• National Library of Wales is bilingual – Welsh
and English
• IIIF standard supports Multilingualism
• NLW worked with Digirati to make the
Wellcome/Universal Viewer support multiple
languages

32. Supporting Infrastructure
Image API Presentation API
Fedora 3
IIP Image (JP2) PFF Image Server
Shared Storage
Image Proxy JSON Cache
METS
ALTO
Manifest
Annotations
http://dams.llgc.org.uk/iiif/2.0/image/1234

33. Summary
• Wide set of use cases
• Interoperable Viewers
• Encouraging content reuse
• Find our digital items:
– http://discover.library.wales
– http://newspapers.library.wales
• Help us transcribe our Maps:
– http://cynefin.archiveswales.org.uk
• Twitter: @glenrobson