To answer my own question about what are "IIIF services" here is the link I found. https://iiif.io " IIIF is a set of open standards for delivering high-quality, attributed digital objects online at scale. It’s also an international community developing and implementing the IIIF APIs. IIIF is backed by a consortium of leading cultural institutions". Harry Spier
On Mon, May 2, 2022 at 11:59 AM Harry Spier <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear Charles > > 1.Ccould you elaborate a little more about the "Texts surrounding Texts > Project" and their open source tools. > > 2. I'm not clear what you mean by "the IIIF service that archive.org > provides". > > Thanks, > Harry Spier > > > On Mon, May 2, 2022 at 8:54 AM Charles Li via INDOLOGY < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> I can personally attest to how useful Dominik's archive.org reviews are! >> They've saved me a lot of work in the past. >> >> What's more, with the IIIF service that archive.org provides, together >> with the open source tools we're putting together as part of the Texts >> Surrounding Texts Project, you can easily put together your own descriptive >> catalogue of material on archive.org. Here is a detailed catalogue entry >> I just made, of a digitized manuscript from Shri Lal Bahadur Shastri >> National Sanskrit University: >> >> https://tst-project.github.io/mss/SLBSNS_02_04_322.xml >> >> There is really a lot of material out there now, it's pretty great! >> >> PS Thanks for bringing up this topic, giving me a chance to advertise... >> >> Best, >> >> Charles >> >> >> On 2022-05-01 06:29, Dominik Wujastyk via INDOLOGY wrote: >> >> In a small way, I've been keeping collection-level links here: >> https://indology.info/external-resources/ , i.e., identifiably >> individual collections living at archive.org. But there's a tremendous >> amount more than what I've noted. >> >> The metadata (=catalogue data) at archive.org is notoriously bad, for >> perfectly understandable reasons. Many people have thought about this >> issue, obviously, but it would be a very expensive undertaking to catalogue >> even a part of what's there and even at a minimal cataloguing record >> level. The Archive.org people take the "Google search" approach, i.e., you >> find what you need by searching using carefully-constructed keywords. This >> is surprisingly effective, but lots falls through the cracks, as we all >> know from personal experience. >> >> My personal approach has been twofold: >> >> 1. When I can, I add proper metadata in the "review" field. And a >> permalink URL pointing to worldcat.org. >> 2. Specifically for manuscripts, when I can, I add a link from >> PanditProject.org and vice-versa. >> >> What I do is purely opportunistic and just a drop in the ocean, but it >> helps me in the long run, and may help others. >> >> Best, >> Dominik >> >> _______________________________________________ >> INDOLOGY mailing >> [email protected]https://list.indology.info/mailman/listinfo/indology >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> INDOLOGY mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://list.indology.info/mailman/listinfo/indology >> >
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