Stuart,
Congratulations on a major and impressive release of Mirador. The live demo
is most wonderful on a desktop. It will be interesting to see how it looks
on various mobile devices.
I am a new Community Rep for the DPLA with an interest in both grassroots
Citizen Science/History projects, in general, and technical interests
related to the intersection of cognitive computing and the Digital
Humanities.
Most specifically, as I will be attending #DPLAfest later this week, it is
easy to see what a GREAT resource Mirador would be for use in DPLA
hackathons and related community-coding projects.
Are you already supporting the DPLA API?
(http://dp.la/info/developers/codex/) If not, is it planned?
If DPLA API support is something that interests you but hasn't hit the
priority list, #DPLAfest would be a great place to find Kindred Spirits to
help make that happen.
And just to put a bee in your Thinking Cap -- as that is more productive
than wasting it on your bonnet -- with just basic DPLA API support you could
do a Proof-Of-Concept version of your live demo of Mirador exploring DPLA
collections. That sure sounds like a demo that DPLA would happily feature in
the For Developers section of the DPLA website.
Add to that basic demo a how-to article with sample code and you open a
pipeline to new Mirador community members/users AND the DPLA Developers
Community gets a great resource for grassroots/indie projects. That would
sure be a win-win-win for all parties.
Will you or any Stanford colleagues be at #DPLAfest? If not, my wife Timlynn
Babitsky and I -- we're project partners and both new DPLA Community Reps --
will be there and will happily provide a slice of cycles to keep an eye
and ear out for opportunities to connect you with Kindred Spirits.
Again, congratulations on your major release. Mirador is certainly a
significant Pay It Forward chit in your Karmic Scorecard! :D
Happy-Healthy Vibes,
-: Jim :-
@Jim_Salmons
www.FactMiners.org
www.SoftalkApple.com
-Original Message-
From: mcn-l-boun...@mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-boun...@mcn.edu] On Behalf Of
Stuart Snydman
Sent: Tuesday, April 14, 2015 11:53 AM
To: Museum Computer Network Listserv
Subject: [MCN-L] Announcing Mirador 2.0 and projectmirador.org
We are excited to (officially) announce the release of Mirador version 2.0.
Please visit our new project website at http://projectmirador.org. Here you
will find a live demo, a four minute screencast demonstrating Mirador 2.0's
features, and links to the code repository and documentation
(https://github.com/IIIF/mirador/).
The 2.0 release of Mirador builds and improves upon the first release with
major user interface improvements and a rich feature set. These include:
Deep zoom and pan using OpenSeadragon
Multiple viewing modes, including single image, two-page, horizontal scroll
and thumbnail gallery Synchronized navigation of multi-image objects by
filmstrip or table of contents (when available) Metadata view Comparison of
multiple images in a fully configurable workspace State saving and
bookmarking for sharing a workspace Embeddable in blogs and third-party web
apps Annotation Notably, Mirador now supports viewing and creation of
annotations on regions of images. The annotation functionality is fully
compatible with the OpenAnnotation specification
(http://www.openannotation.org/), and of course Mirador 2.0 is fully
compliant with the IIIF Image and Presentation API's (http://iiif.io).
A variety of features are in the backlog for the next version, and you can
view the updated roadmap at
https://github.com/IIIF/mirador/wiki/Mirador-2.1-Roadmap.
Mirador 2.0 is the result of a gratifying global collaboration. Many thanks
and congratulations to the lead development team, which consists of Drew
Winget from Stanford University and Rashmi Singhal from Harvard University.
Mirador 2.0 would not have been possible without contributions of code,
advice, testing and support by many others at Harvard, Stanford and the IIIF
community. See a full list of acknowledgements on the project website.
As we look forward to subsequent releases, improvements and extensions to
Mirador, we invite contributions of issues, bug fixes, and new features by
others. If you are interested, please sign up for the
mirador-t...@googlegroups.com list, and head to Github to read the
contributor guidelines and get started.
-Stu Snydman
Stuart Snydman
Associate Director for Digital Strategy
Stanford University Libraries
ps - pardon the cross-posts!
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