EADitor now supports EAD and MODS to IIIF manifest generation

After migrating the Newell TEI notebooks to support serialization of facsimiles into IIIF manifests and the render of these manifests in an embedded Mirador viewer, I implemented a transformation of EAD finding aid image collections and MODS records for photographs into manifests.

EAD updates

The EAD finding aids were updated to replace the daogrp's linking to flickr images to link to thumbnail, reference, and IIIF service URLs (dao[@xlink:role='IIIFService']). An XSLT transformation of the EAD into manifest JSON occurs, with an intermediate process of iterating through the IIIFService info.json files with the Orbeon XForms processor in XPL to extract the height and width to generate canvases for each image.

The Brett finding aid now includes clickable thumbnails that will launch the zoomable Leaflet viewer in a fancybox popup window. At the top of the page, the user can download the manifest, and there's also a link to view the manifest in our internal Mirador viewer. You can view the EAD XML (link at top) for more details.

MODS updates

The updates to the MODS were twofold. First, in the previous version of Archer, all photographs were suppressed from the public regardless of copyright concerns. We have re-evaluated these concerns by applying one of several Rights Statements. Two of these rights statements are most permissible, and therefore, we will display the high resolution image when we have every right to do so. In any case, thumbnails are Fair Use, and therefore, they are always visible in the record page and the search results pages.

Where copyright allows us to do so, the MODS file includes a URL for the reference image and a URL[@access='raw object' and @note='IIIFService']. When a IIIFService URL is present in the MODS record, the XSLT transformation will include a Leaflet div and initiate the display of the image. See A Portrait Photograph of Margaret Thompson, for example. Like the finding aid, a manifest is dynamically generated from MODS, but only one XForms processor is called to extract the height and width from the info.json for the single image linked in the MODS file.

Pelagios Updates

Since the Brett collection links many photographs to ancient places defined in the Pleiades Gazetteer of Ancient Places, I have updated the EADitor RDF output for Pelagios. The output now includes IIIF service metadata conforming to the Europeana Data Model specification. Rainer Simon has imported these photographs into Peripleo.