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Digital Workflows and Interoperability for Emblem Studies

Tim Cole ([email protected])

Myung-Ja Han ([email protected])

Jordan Vannoy ([email protected])

Jennifer Giordano

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Society for Emblem Studies30 June 2011

Glasgow, Scotland, UK

http://emblematica.grainger.illinois.eduGrainger Engineering Library Information Center

mailto:[email protected]



Order of presentation

From a library perspective, this project provides the opportunityto examine & test new ways to curate scholarly digital content

Agenda

•Motivation – learning to curate to meet scholar expectations

•Digitization workflows; a mix of generic & custom

•Transcription, metadata, & other post-digitization workflows

•Portal design – principles & implementation (preliminary)

•Looking forward

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Meeting scholar expectations

• Multiple access routes– More than just the library online catalog– Collection can be entered at any point

• Support for multiple granularity of resources– Book, emblem, pictura, ...

• Sustainable links – Persistent URLs for book, emblem, pictura, ...– Can be referenced even at sub-object level

• Links to vocabularies, increasingly as linked data – Iconclass– LCSH



Multiple ways to discover and link to contentTraditonal Library

OPACMass DigitizationScholarly Portal

As an example:

Consider discovery & access points for Johann Vogel's Meditationes emblematicae de restaurata pace Germaniae

Disciplinary Portal

Discover & use content at multiple granularities

Handle

Thumbnail

Motto

Iconclass

Sustainable links

• Persistent identifiers using recognized standards– CNRI Handles, PURLs, DOIs, ARK, ....– Content can be moved, but URIs remain the same

• Use tools that support scholarly citation– W3C Media Fragments, OpenURL (djatoka), Momento– Scholars need to be able to cite segments of a resource– Repositories must version and archive



Persistent identifiers

Citable segmentshttp://djatoka.grainger.illinois.edu/adore-djatoka/resolver?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_id=http://emblemimages.grainger.illinois.edu/meditationesembl00voge/JP2Processed/meditationesembl00voge_0010-0011.jp2&svc_id=info:lanl-repo/svc/getRegion&svc_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:jpeg2000&svc.format=image/jpeg&svc.level=5&svc.rotate=0&svc.region=1152,3160,320,568

How do we get there?

• Leverage generic workflows for digitization – Create range of standard, useful derivatives

• Augment with content-specific post processing– Additional metadata & description– Additional derivatives tailored to prime audience

• Specialized portal tailored to target audience

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Archival JP2 images

Cropped JP2 images

Scan the book &produce JP2

Stitch associated images togetherCrop

Pictura

Digitization

Outcomes of generic digitization

Custom post-digitization processing

Motto transcription & normalization

XML metadata generation for emblems

Iconclass heading assignment

Based on: A Spine of Information Headings for Emblem-Related Electronic Resources by Stephen Rawles (2003)

Create additional derivatives

http://www.ces.arts.gla.ac.uk/html/spine.htm

http://www.ces.arts.gla.ac.uk/html/spine.htm

Linked data and vocabularies

• Web has always been about relationships between & among information resources

• Linked data rules:– Use URIs as names for things

– Use HTTP URIs so that names can be de-referenced

– Provide useful information when names de-referenced

– Include links to other things so they can be discovered

Goal: Build applications that discover relationships



Linking through controlled vocabularies

“Iconclass is a classification system designed for art and iconography.”

Attributes: hierarchical notation reflects hierarchy both labels & keywords

Using iconclass heading assigned to an emblem as an anchor to connect to other emblems with same or related headings

Search results for Emblems with same or

related iconclass headings

Search results for Emblems with same or

related iconclass headings

Select an emblem

Select an emblem

Select an iconclass heading

Select an iconclass heading

Browse/Select an iconclass heading

Browse/Select an iconclass heading

LC Subject Headings as linked data



Book Information –

Derived from library catalog records

Creating Emblematica Online Portal

• Providing integrated search / browse portal for digitized emblem resources– Different levels of access points– Leverage mixed granularity of images & metadata – Leverage sustainable links, linked data opportunities

offered by book & emblem registry, topic ontologies– Anchor to the original repositories

Must be a collaboration between users & libraries



Sample links illustrating prototype portal

• http://emblematica.grainger.illinois.edu/OEBP/UI/SearchForm

• http://emblematica.grainger.illinois.edu/OEBP/UI/SearchResults?

kywrds=fama&btnSearch=Submit&eKywrds=fama&searchSection=both&startat=0&eStartat=0


startat=0&kywrds=&eStartat=0&eKywrds=&eSearchICNot=&bModsID=8089&emblemRow=2610

&icNotation=47A212

• http://emblematica.grainger.illinois.edu/OEBP/UI/SearchResults?eStartat=0&bModsID=13389


startat=0&kywrds=&eStartat=0&eKywrds=&eSearchICNot=&bModsID=13389&emblemRow=445

6&icNotation=25G3

• http://emblematica.grainger.illinois.edu/OEBP/UI/SearchResults?icNotation=25G3(...)



http://emblematica.grainger.illinois.edu/OEBP/UI/SearchForm

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Search / Discovery functions –

Search Books & EmblemsSearch Books onlySearch Emblems onlyBrowse by Iconclass

Emblematica Online Portal



Book [Matches] Tab –

Shows a list of books with brief bibliographic information




Book [Details] Tab –

Selecting a book allows viewing detailed bibliographic information and emblems contained in the book in Emblem Tab


Link to catalog



Emblems Tab –

Brings up all the emblems included in the book

Selecting Emblem Tab alsomakes both Emblem Detail and Browse Iconclass Tabs alive.




Emblem Detail Tab introduces – *emblem Identifier *thumbnail*motto*emblem/pictura links*Iconclass headings (with notation and label)

Using Iconclass as a new search/browse point!


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Browse Iconclass Tab –

Makes available iconclass headings browseable and searchable by notation

Looking ahead

• Iterative design, development & collaboration

• Application of existing & emerging standards to meet the needs of emblem studies community

• Adding functionalities:– Annotation and tagging– Linked data services– Collection development



Digital Emblematica & the Open Annotation Collaboration



Using Dannotate

with conditional style

by proxy

Using Dannotate

with conditional style

by proxy

Using PlinyUsing Pliny

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