Distributed Repositories of Medieval Calendars and Crowd-Sourcing of Transcription

Presentation at Open Repositories 2014, Helsinki, Finland, June 9-13, 2014

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This paper discusses the use of IIIF image and metadata APIs to access, display and record the transcriptions of medieval manuscripts. The focus is on calendars, as relatively easy and ubiquitous features that can significantly help with dating and locating the origin of the manuscript. The IIIF APIs are discussed, along with the Mirador front end, and the extensions that enable distributed transcription via the W3C Open Annotation specification.