Results
Feel for the volunteers who did all 1,000 pages!
Exercises:
- Navigate to somebody else's section, do you see the annotations?
- Take the Manifest and view it in http://projectmirador.org/. The manifest is https://iiif.gdmrdigital.com/nlw/bor.json
- Do you see the annotations?
- Take the Manifest to the Universal Viewer: https://universalviewer.io/
- What do you see?
Looking at the annotation:
{
"@id" : "http://35.177.224.176:8888/annotation/1559731764132",
"@type" : "oa:Annotation",
"dcterms:created" : "2019-06-05T10:49:24",
"resource" : [ {
"@id" : "_:b2",
"@type" : "dctypes:Text",
"http://dev.llgc.org.uk/sas/full_text" : "<span property=\"ns:rank\" class=\"rank\">Ty.Sub.Lt. <span property=\"ns:name\" class=\"name\">Eric Hugh Allan <span property=\"ns:unit\" class=\"unit\">R.N.R <span property=\"ns:ship\" class=\"ship\">Bombala",
"format" : "text/html",
"chars" : "<p><span property=\"ns:rank\" class=\"rank\">Ty.Sub.Lt.</span> <span property=\"ns:name\" class=\"name\">Eric Hugh Allan</span> <span property=\"ns:unit\" class=\"unit\">R.N.R</span> <span property=\"ns:ship\" class=\"ship\">Bombala</span></p>"
} ],
"on" : {
"@id" : "_:b0",
"@type" : "oa:SpecificResource",
"within" : "https://iiif.gdmrdigital.com/nlw/bor.json",
"selector" : {
"@id" : "_:b1",
"@type" : "oa:FragmentSelector",
"value" : "xywh=488,1543,2735,327"
},
"full" : "https://damsssl.llgc.org.uk/iiif/2.0/4642022/canvas/4642029.json"
},
"motivation" : [ "oa:commenting" ],
"@context" : "http://iiif.io/api/presentation/2/context.json"
}
Looking more closely at the Annotation body:
<p>
<span property=\"ns:rank\" class=\"rank\">Ty.Sub.Lt.</span>
<span property=\"ns:name\" class=\"name\">Eric Hugh Allan</span>
<span property=\"ns:unit\" class=\"unit\">R.N.R</span>
<span property=\"ns:ship\" class=\"ship\">Bombala</span>
</p>
This uses RDF/A which is linked data hidden inside HTML. The HTML is what Mirador displays in the annotation but it can also be loaded to a Linked Data database and queried. For example this is looking at all the places listed in the book and putting them on a heat map:
and this is looking at the numbers lost per ship:
and doing a bit more research I found:
and a Newspaper article and blog post:
A full export of the data is available at: https://github.com/NLW-paulm/BoR-annotations
Search
So how did that work?
Lets have a look at the Manifest: https://iiif.gdmrdigital.com/nlw/bor.json
Summary
Win, Win
- Engaged volunteers
- Publicity for the collection
- Funding
- Item now searchable for the public
- Data available for integration