I've started my work at BEIC[1] and yesterday I've had a sort of revelation: their work on METS structural maps is the exact librarian equivalent of what we do at Wikisource with ProofreadPage[2] page transclusions. It's clear we can learn a lot from BEIC. See yourself, this is a scan where every image was manually mapped to the structure of pages, "chapters" (which are also OPAC entries) etc. on the left. Doesn't it immediately make you think of the Index namespace and <pagelist /> tag?[3] http://131.175.183.1/view/action/nmets.do?DOCCHOICE=2244270.xml&dvs=1411563364754~190&locale=it&search_terms=DTL12&adjacency=&VIEWER_URL=/view/action/nmets.do?&DELIVERY_RULE_ID=7&divType=&usePid1=true&usePid2=true All this is based on an open standard, METS, and its only required section, the "structural map" (of the digital document). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/METS#The_7_sections_of_a_METS_document Apparently, no other digital library does this job. BEIC and Wikisource may be the only ones in the world and of course they don't share a standard. :( Even the BEIC viewer is a local "hack" on top of ExLibris Primo, I/they don't know if there's any free software for METS. I didn't find any mention of METS in "our places" so I run to tell you all.
Nemo
[1] Biblioteca europea di informazione e cultura, where I'm currently a wikimedian in residence: https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progetto:GLAM/BEIC No article outside it.wiki yet, see http://cat.inist.fr/?aModele=afficheN&cpsidt=27893199 (I can provide other sources if you want to write something about BEIC). [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Proofread_Page [3] https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Help:Beginner%27s_guide_to_Index:_files
Thanks a lot Federico for this email and sorry for the late reply.
I'll try to get some time to see how METS works on the next few days.
If this standard is compatible with ProofreadPage assumptions it would be very nice to implement in the extension an API that would allow to do import/export in this format.
Thomas
Le 24 sept. 2014 à 15:17, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemowiki@gmail.com a écrit :
I've started my work at BEIC[1] and yesterday I've had a sort of revelation: their work on METS structural maps is the exact librarian equivalent of what we do at Wikisource with ProofreadPage[2] page transclusions. It's clear we can learn a lot from BEIC. See yourself, this is a scan where every image was manually mapped to the structure of pages, "chapters" (which are also OPAC entries) etc. on the left. Doesn't it immediately make you think of the Index namespace and <pagelist /> tag?[3] http://131.175.183.1/view/action/nmets.do?DOCCHOICE=2244270.xml&dvs=1411563364754~190&locale=it&search_terms=DTL12&adjacency=&VIEWER_URL=/view/action/nmets.do?&DELIVERY_RULE_ID=7&divType=&usePid1=true&usePid2=true All this is based on an open standard, METS, and its only required section, the "structural map" (of the digital document). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/METS#The_7_sections_of_a_METS_document Apparently, no other digital library does this job. BEIC and Wikisource may be the only ones in the world and of course they don't share a standard. :( Even the BEIC viewer is a local "hack" on top of ExLibris Primo, I/they don't know if there's any free software for METS. I didn't find any mention of METS in "our places" so I run to tell you all.
Nemo
[1] Biblioteca europea di informazione e cultura, where I'm currently a wikimedian in residence: https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progetto:GLAM/BEIC No article outside it.wiki yet, see http://cat.inist.fr/?aModele=afficheN&cpsidt=27893199 (I can provide other sources if you want to write something about BEIC). [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Proofread_Page [3] https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Help:Beginner%27s_guide_to_Index:_files
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Thomas Tanon, 06/10/2014 11:00:
Thanks a lot Federico for this email and sorry for the late reply.
I'll try to get some time to see how METS works on the next few days.
If this standard is compatible with ProofreadPage assumptions it would be very nice to implement in the extension an API that would allow to do import/export in this format.
Great, it will be an interesting discovery whatever the outcome. Please let me know if I can help in some way, e.g. with an example file in METS format from BEIC (they're not publicly exposed). How to "speak METS" is already a problem for me/us because BEIC would agree to publish (somewhere on Wikimedia projects) their METS for hundreds books, but we don't know how to store them. :)
Nemo
Here's some documentation: http://www.loc.gov/standards/mets/mets-schemadocs.html
There's an handy 148 PDF Primer :-) http://www.loc.gov/standards/mets/METSPrimerRevised.pdf
Aubrey
On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 3:24 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemowiki@gmail.com wrote:
Thomas Tanon, 06/10/2014 11:00:
Thanks a lot Federico for this email and sorry for the late reply.
I'll try to get some time to see how METS works on the next few days.
If this standard is compatible with ProofreadPage assumptions it would be very nice to implement in the extension an API that would allow to do import/export in this format.
Great, it will be an interesting discovery whatever the outcome. Please let me know if I can help in some way, e.g. with an example file in METS format from BEIC (they're not publicly exposed). How to "speak METS" is already a problem for me/us because BEIC would agree to publish (somewhere on Wikimedia projects) their METS for hundreds books, but we don't know how to store them. :)
Nemo
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