Search, Annotation, and

AuthenticationGlen Robson

Head of Systems

National Library of Wales

Twitter: @glenrobson

Plan

●Annotations○ Mirador

○ Annotations for Research

○ Annotations for teaching

○ Annotations by machines

○ Crowdsourcing Annotations

●Search API○ Searching transcriptions

○ Searching OCR

●Authentication API○ Options

○ Implementations

○ Auth Playground

Annotations

• Separate to the IIIF Standard

• Currently uses Open Annotations

• Next version compatible with W3C Web Annotations

Mirador http://projectmirador.org

Jeff Witt - lombardpress.org

Annotations for Teaching

Image showing annotation from student

Image showing annotation from staff

Image from Digirati OCR and Named

Entity Code

Schulich School of Music, McGill University

IIIF Search API

●Search API○ Like PDF search within

○ Only annotations are searchable not Metadata

National Library of Wales Crowdsourcing with IIIF

●Mirador and Simple Annotation Server

●Transcribe the Welsh WW1 Book of Remembrance

Cynefin

cynefin.archiveswales.org.uk

NLW Crowdsourcing Project

● Choose your IIIF collection

● Setup the site in Omeka-s

● Configure your capture model

● Launch

● Users authenticate with Twitter, Facebook, Google or Shibboleth

IIIF Authentication

Login

The user will be required to log in using a separate window with a UI provided by an external authentication system.

Click through

The user will be required to click a button within the client using content provided in the service description.

Kiosk

The user will not be required to interact with an authentication system, the client is expected to use the access cookie service automatically.

External

The user is expected to have already acquired the appropriate cookie, and the access cookie service will not be used at all.

Login

Click through

Implementations in development

● British Library

○ In copyright material

○ Staff access

○ Single user access within the building

● Getty

○ Staff access off site to private material

○ On site for copyright

● Auth Playground:

○ https://iiifauth.digtest.co.uk/

Summary

● Varied annotation use cases

○ Teaching, Research, Automated and Crowdsourced

https://www.w3.org/TR/annotation-model/

● IIIF Search allows searching of annotations

http://iiif.io/api/search/0.9/

● IIIF Auth protects resources

http://iiif.io/api/auth/1.0/