Digital Workflows and Interoperability for Emblem Studies Tim Cole Myung-Ja Han Jordan Vannoy Jennifer Giordano University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Society for Emblem Studies 30 June 2011 Glasgow, Scotland, UK Grainger Engineering Library Information Center

Order of presentation From a library perspective, this project provides the opportunity to 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 2 Digital Emblematica 30 June Society for Emblem Studies

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 3 Digital Emblematica 30 June Society for Emblem Studies

Multiple ways to discover and link to content Traditonal Library OPACMass Digitization Scholarly 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 6 Digital Emblematica 30 June Society for Emblem Studies

Persistent identifiers

Citable segments djatoka/resolver?url_ver=Z &rft_id= nois.edu/meditationesembl00voge/JP2Proces sed/meditationesembl00voge_ jp2&svc_id=info:lanl- repo/svc/getRegion&svc_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt :kev:mtx:jpeg2000&svc.format=image/jpeg&s vc.level=5&svc.rotate=0&svc.region=1152,316 0,320,568

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 9 30 June Society for Emblem Studies Digital Emblematica

Archival JP2 images Cropped JP2 images Scan the book & produce JP2 Stitch associated images together Crop 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 ResourcesA Spine of Information Headings for Emblem-Related Electronic Resources by Stephen Rawles (2003) Create additional derivatives

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 June Society for Emblem Studies Digital Emblematica

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 June Society for Emblem Studies Digital Emblematica 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 16 Digital Emblematica 30 June Society for Emblem Studies

Sample links illustrating prototype portal t&eKywrds=fama&searchSection=both&startat=0&eStartat=0http://emblematica.grainger.illinois.edu/OEBP/UI/SearchResults?kywrds=fama&btnSearch=Submi t&eKywrds=fama&searchSection=both&startat=0&eStartat=0 eKywrds=&eSearchICNot=&bModsID=8089&emblemRow=2610&icNotation=47A212http://emblematica.grainger.illinois.edu/OEBP/UI/SearchResults?startat=0&kywrds=&eStartat=0& eKywrds=&eSearchICNot=&bModsID=8089&emblemRow=2610&icNotation=47A eKywrds=&eSearchICNot=&bModsID=13389&emblemRow=4456&icNotation=25G3http://emblematica.grainger.illinois.edu/OEBP/UI/SearchResults?startat=0&kywrds=&eStartat=0& eKywrds=&eSearchICNot=&bModsID=13389&emblemRow=4456&icNotation=25G June Society for Emblem Studies Digital Emblematica

30 June Society for Emblem Studies 18 Digital Emblematica Search / Discovery functions – Search Books & Emblems Search Books only Search Emblems only Browse by Iconclass Emblematica Online Portal

30 June Society for Emblem Studies 19 Digital Emblematica Book [Matches] Tab – Shows a list of books with brief bibliographic information Emblematica Online Portal

30 June Society for Emblem Studies 20 Digital Emblematica Book [Details] Tab – Selecting a book allows viewing detailed bibliographic information and emblems contained in the book in Emblem Tab Emblematica Online Portal Link to catalog

30 June Society for Emblem Studies 21 Digital Emblematica Emblems Tab – Brings up all the emblems included in the book Selecting Emblem Tab also makes both Emblem Detail and Browse Iconclass Tabs alive. Emblematica Online Portal

30 June Society for Emblem Studies 22 Digital Emblematica 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! Emblematica Online Portal

30 June Society for Emblem Studies Emblematica Online Portal 23 Digital Emblematica 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 June Society for Emblem Studies Digital Emblematica

Digital Emblematica & the Open Annotation Collaboration June Society for Emblem Studies Digital Emblematica Using Dannotate with conditional style by proxy Using Dannotate with conditional style by proxy Using Pliny