ViRR Specification

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The start content (the images) are available as tiff, pdf and jpg. The tiffs (up to 50 MB per picture) are the original archive version, the pdfs are needed for the download and the jpgs for the web presentation.

Detailed Specification about the different scenarios can be found here:

• ViRR Browse and Display
• ViRR Ingestion
• ViRR Editing
• ViRR Searching
• ViRR Export
• ViRR Keywords and Synonyms
• ViRR User Management
• ViRR Persistent Identification
• ViRR Transcriptions
• ViRR Relations

FIRST PHASE

Release one

Open Points

1. Bibliographic Metadata
   • A list of all MABs fields used by the institute is necessary to prepare the mapping.
2. Quality correction of the pictures
   • The institute is not pleased with the quality of the original TIFFs (e.g. the black frames of the scans should be removed) and also with the created jpgs. The MPDL can only offer an automatic refinement of the presentation of the pictures (jpgs), not of the original files. If a correction of the original files is needed, this has to be done manually by the institute.

Release two

Open Points

1. Descriptive Metadata
   • A list of all metadata that should be marked up is needed from the institute.

Release three

Browsing

• Extension of the alphabetical browsing tree with the chapters of the books
• Chronological (sorted by the creation date) browsing tree as entrance to the collection´s content
• Navigating functionalities within the thumbnail lists (paginator)
• Paging (blättern) within the "detailed view" of the pictures of one book

Display

• Integration of Digilib functionalities to navigate within one picture (in the "detailed view")
  • Zooming in, zooming out, framing of a zoom area, switching back to see the whole picture
  • Left, right, up and down navigation within a zoomed picture
  • "View negative" functionality
  • Dynamic creation of a "identification stamp" (Herkunftsnachweis) on all pictures in the "detailed view" (also after zooming)
• Metadata (bibliographic, descriptive, administrative/technical) of a book and a chapter

Search

• Simple Search
  • One search field, which searches in every metadata field
• Advanced Search
  • Search for special metadata

Open Points

1. Browsing
   • Shall the chronological browsing tree be sorted by the creation date of the books or the chapters within the books?
   • Is a browsing via the names of the documents (law titles) needed?
2. Search
   • Are auto suggested fields in terms of lists needed for special metadata fields (e.g. author)?

Release four

Keywords

Keywords are used as basis for a browsable index list.

• The following content should be indexed by the system and displayed in the list:
  • Bibliographic metadata
  • Descriptive metadata
• Manually editing of keyword lists (assignment of keywords)
  • Keywords are part of the bibliographic and the descriptive metadata.

Export

Each picture can be selected for a later export.

• Downloading of pictures
  • Download of one or several single pages as jpgs (each image is one file)
  • Saving and downloading of a (zoomed) part of the picture (as jpg)
  • Downloading of several selected pages of one book (or a whole book) in one document (conversion from several jpgs to one pdf). This pdf should be automatically expanded with a cover page containing (identification) information like the origin of the pages, the usage rights, the URL and the bibliographical metadata about the book.
• Downloading of metadata
  • Downloading of the METS document in XML for one book
    

The generated pdfs should not be to big, so a compression method is needed.

Persistent Identification

Following objects should be referenced:

• the book
• the toc
• each page
• each chapter

Open Points

1. Export
   • Is the downloading of the metadata of a book or chapter in (several) citation styles needed or is ? If yes, which citation styles should be supported?

SECOND PHASE

User Management

incl. visibility and privileges

• User roles
  • Unregistered user (full viewing rights)
  • Account user (full viewing rights and the right to make proposals for the content of the descriptive metadata, keywords and synonyms)
  • Local administrator (full viewing and editing rights for all metadata, competence to accept or refuse the proposals of the account users)
• User management workspace (only visible and editable for local administrators)
  • All information about the account users will be stored in the system: new users can be added, still available users can be edited or deactivated (not deleted).

Transcriptions

in METS

• A transcription of all pages is desirable. Perhaps an OCR method can be integrated, which has to be corrected manually.
• A tool for the online creation of transcriptions is needed with further functionalities:
  • Automatic display of "who has done what"
  • Connection with the workflow: every user should be able to create or update a transcription, but the changes will only be released when they are authorized by a legitimate person.
• Heidelberg will deliver several transcriptions of the texts which can be integrated in ViRR. There, the scientists shall have the possibility to rework them.

  ViRR shall support to annotate external objects (like the transcriptions from Heidelberg), without saving the object directly in ViRR (redundant data storage is not desirable).

  This can only work, when the users of ViRR have the privileges to change the external objects.

Ingestion

• Uploading of further books via a batch method (together with bibliographic metadata, evtl. also with transcriptions)

Editing

• Editing of bibliographic and descriptive metadata (for the whole book or only a part of it)

Annotations

(zu Editing)

• What should be annotated (only the transcriptions or something else)?
• What markup is needed for that annotation?

Relations

• Relations between one word and a dictionary
• Relations between items

Synonyms

1. Creation of a synonym list
   • A synonym list can be based on the keyword list
2. Assignment of synonyms
   • During the editing of metadata it should be possible to specify new synonyms which then should be automatically added to the synonym list.
   • If one synonym is not valid for the whole term of a metadata field, it should be possible to mark the part of the term (e.g. for "Die Polizeiordnungen des heiligen römischen Reiches" one synonym is "Polizeyordnungen").

Open Points

1. User Management
   • Are further roles are needed (e.g. librarian, scientist)? With what privileges?
2. Synonyms
   • Shall the synonyms be integrated in the index list?

Portable Document Format

Max Planck Digital Library

Web Based Server Technology for Viewing and Working with Images

Uniform Resource Locator

Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard

Extensible Markup Language

Optical Character Recognition

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