John Baker, Managing Director john.baker@digirati.co.uk Tom Crane, Technical Director...

John Baker, Managing Directorjohn.baker@digirati.co.uk

Tom Crane, Technical Directortom.crane@digirati.co.uk

Links:http://player.digirati.co.uk/ikso.html

• Encore (discovery)

• Catalogue

• Membership

The Wellcome Library did not want to introduce an off-the-shelf “silo” digital library product

Background – we built the “DDS”

Digitisation Workflow (Goobi)

METS

cat record: b18021013

b18021013.xml

Digital AssetManagement System(SDB / Preservica)

METS-ALTOb18021013_001.xmlb18021013_002.xmlb18021013_003.xml…

…and we built a beautiful responsive web site with our design partners Clearleft

Navigating the site and the catalogues is a great experience on all devices

And we made sure the results use desktop and tablet features – such as mouse wheel…

…keyboard interactions…

…and pinch to zoom on touch devices…

But small devices are a problem. It works, but…

…a phone is not the best device to study archive materials on

…if you keep the same UI as a tablet…

We have all these features – but what should we try to do on a 4 inch screen?

• Deep Zoom• Search within• Bibliographic metadata• Access control• Thumbnails• Standalone player, can be embedded• Audio, video, Born-digital• Embedding:• http

://blog.wellcomelibrary.org/2014/10/a-victorian-lunatic-asylum-begins-to-reveal-its-secrets/

Does there come a point at which we should cut our losses?

• http://libimages.princeton.edu/osd-demo/?feedme=pudl0052%2F6131707%2F00000001.jp2

• http://oculus-dev.harvardx.harvard.edu/manifests/view/drs:47617540#uuid-9f4cfbf5-9a87-499e-8b8d-6b4ab0241b99

British Library requirement

For the Wellcome Library, mobile optimisation of the site for all devices was important.

Mobile optimisation of the Player was important for tablets, but not smaller devices

British Library requirement

British Library has much wider reach, so we will need to revisit our approach to mobile

• Simplify UI• Avoid multiple panels• Strip right down to deep-zoom only

• Maybe there is no ideal solution – sometimes you really do need a 30 inch monitor

IIIF at BL and Wellcome

International Image Interoperability Frameworkhttp://iiif.io/

IIIF

• We’re interested in it because we support it as a standard for viewers and servers

• But it also offers a foundation to build responsive image solutions

• Great if all cultural heritage institutions make their image resources available in this way