Using the RERUM Adapter for Mirador

A new plugin that integrates RERUM annotation service with Mirador viewer, enabling users to save and share annotations as standard Linked Open Data across multiple platforms.

Major Upgrade for TPEN

TPEN receives NEH Digital Humanities Advancement Grant for major platform upgrade, moving to RERUM-powered infrastructure while preserving thousands of existing transcription projects.

Dynamic Collections Through Annotation

Learn how to create changeable IIIF collections that combine remote resources using annotation-based methods, with demonstrations of real public services for researchers and developers.

Building a IIIF-Aware Ecosystem

Tour the principles and components of OngCDH's IIIF-aware ecosystem, showcasing tools, APIs, and web components that accelerate digital humanities application development.

Geolocating with IIIF Presentation API 2.1 Annotation

Revisiting IIIF Presentation API 2.1 annotation approach for geolocation using GeoJSON-LD bodies within annotation structures for geographic polygons.

Geolocating with IIIF Presentation API 3.0: Part 3

Testing IIIF Presentation API 3.0 services for GeoJSON-LD support, implementing geographic data through service objects attached to Manifests.

Geolocating with IIIF Presentation API 3.0: Part 2

Extending geolocation capabilities to target specific entity fragments like inset maps using IIIF Presentation API 3.0 annotations with coordinate data.

Geolocating with IIIF Presentation API 3.0: Part 1

Explore how to implement geographic annotations in IIIF Presentation API 3.0 using GeoJSON-LD to geolocate Manifests with coordinate data and geographic polygons.

Geolocating with IIIF Presentation API 2.1 Services

Using IIIF Presentation API 2.1 services to attach GeoJSON-LD objects to Manifests for geographic functionality when Annotation syntax falls short.

IIIF Cookbook: Data Recipes For Humans

Contributing to the IIIF Cookbook with GeoJSON recipes for geographic annotations, demonstrating how standards committees create practical examples for implementers.

IIIF and Maps Conference: Coordinates in Data

Exploring how to create standardized geospatial annotations for IIIF resources using GeoJSON and Web Annotation standards for interoperable linked open data.

Maps and Humanities

How spatiotemporal data shapes digital humanities research, from Lived Religion projects to standardized geospatial assertions connecting humans, time, and space.

Structural REform

Introducing REform, a user-friendly application for creating and managing organizational structures in IIIF Manifests using Canvas and Range elements with standards-based encoding.

A IIIF Concordance

Building a concordance tool for IIIF Manifests with transcription annotations, enabling paleographers to analyze word frequencies and compare letterforms across manuscripts.

Exploiting Client-side Line Detection

Extending client-side line detection experiments with real-time image processing for manuscript transcription, achieving fast results without complex infrastructure.

Experimenting with Client-side Line Detection

Rerum Enters Public Alpha

Announcing Rerum's public alpha release: an open, free repository for digital objects and annotations, built on web standards to accelerate Humanities application development.

The Standards Approach

Exploring how to effectively combine web standards like RESTful APIs, CORS, Web Annotation, and IIIF when building digital humanities applications and APIs.

Auth + Attribution of Open Data

Balancing open data accessibility with attribution and ownership rights through versioning trees and metadata to preserve creator credit while enabling public reuse.

Authentication and Attribution in RERUM

How RERUM approaches authentication and attribution by having applications authenticate themselves rather than individual users, creating more durable scholarly attributions.

Forgetting Deleted Objects in RERUM

How RERUM handles object deletion by healing version history trees while maintaining open access principles and proper attribution for deleted content.

Deleted Objects in RERUM

How RERUM transforms deleted objects to break unaware interfaces while preserving data access for developers through the __deleted property structure.

Versioning in RERUM

Understanding how RERUM implements versioning for digital objects to ensure permanent references while allowing for updates and changes in Linked Open Data ecosystems.

Editing Remote Objects in RERUM

How RERUM handles updates to remote objects like Wellcome Library annotations, maintaining trust and authentication through versioning and provenance tracking.

Mirador and Rerum Inbox: Improving the LDN Plugin

Updates to the Mirador LDN Plugin extend functionality for more object types, plus a new Rerum Inbox interface for posting supplemental IIIF Manifest content.

TPEN Updating the transcription interface. Part 2.

Organizing T-PEN's interface hierarchy using layered focus levels - from transcription core to keyboard shortcuts, split screens, and distant options tabs.

Pages tools and getting more out of your images

How T-PEN's page tools use CSS3 image manipulation (invert, grayscale, brightness, contrast) to improve readability of poor-quality manuscript scans and photos.

LDN Inbox is live

Announcing a new LDN Inbox for the IIIF community, providing free public notification services for scholarly resources and enabling better discovery and feedback.

Identity through Evidence

Exploring how to establish digital identity and uniqueness for historical artifacts like WWI letters through URIs, annotations, and linked data principles.

TPEN Updating the transcription interface. Part 1.

Major TPEN interface update focusing on transcription workflow optimization, tool prioritization, and better user experience based on five years of feedback.

Tradamus

A free web application for creating digital critical editions, allowing scholars to import transcriptions, collate witnesses, add commentary, and publish using flexible methodologies.

T-PEN Development Advance Post

Announcing resumed T-PEN development with funding from SLU Libraries, featuring RERUM integration and seeking community input on priorities for version 2.8 and 3.0.