Introduction to Managing Digitalised Documents

This page is related to a workshop designed for CDCS by Scott Renton and Mike Bennet focusing on Digitalised Documents good practices.

The International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) is a community-led approach to standardised image delivery. Its aims are to produce uniform, rich access to media wherever it is hosted; to produce APIs that support interoperability, and to produce tools that improve the user experience around viewing, comparing, manipulating, and annotating images. 

The Library and University Collections department at the University of Edinburgh have embraced IIIF, and are heavily invested in its use, as consortium members. This workshop gives an overview of the IIIF concepts, along with Edinburgh’s deployment and progress in the field, from simple image manipulation and deep zoom to search and annotation.

The following topics are covered: 

•  IIIF Overview  

•  Working with digitised data (Image and Presentation APIs)  

• Search API and OCR  

Material designed by: Scott Renton and Mike Bennett

License: CC-BY-NC

This is an intermediate-level workshop. Intermediate sessions explore specific aspects of the method (libraries, tools etc.) and offer a more in-depth understanding of the workshop topics. Some previous knowledge of digitised documents is required to be able to follow the content.