Use Case: LibrariesNational Library of Wales

Glen Robson @glenrobson

Plan• Background to the National Library of Wales

– Content– Different types Newspapers/Archives/Paintings/Manuscripts

• IIIF Good for sharing– Maps– Manuscripts– Europeana Newspapers– History pin

• IIIF Good for us– Viewers– Page Flip – exhibition– Kiln– Multilingualism

Content

Content

Content

Content

Content

Cynefin

cynefin.archiveswales.org.uk

Benefits of IIIF

• No transfer of images• Changes can be made straight away.• No loss of control of images• Presentation API means no custom connector• Can display items in our own Resource

Discovery Solutions

Sharing Manuscripts

Sharing Content

IIIF Good for us

Zoomify

Newspapers

WW1 Content

Universal Viewer, based on the Wellcome Player

Supporting Infrastructure

• IIIF integrated into Fedora• Images served through IIP Image• All new content available through IIIF

Integrations

Kiln

Multilingualism

• National Library of Wales is bilingual – Welsh and English

• IIIF standard supports Multilingualism• NLW working with digirati to make the

Wellcome/Universal Viewer support multiple languages

Questions & Summary

• IIIF Good for sharing– Maps– Manuscripts– Europeana Newspapers– History pin

• IIIF Good for us– Viewers– Kiln– Page Flip – exhibition– Multilingualism

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