1. Special Interest Group „digilib“ - an overview -
eSciDoc Days
09-10th of June 2008
Berlin, Harnack Haus
Tobias Schraut

2. topics What is digilib? Some history Digilib and eSciDoc
Interested in a digilib SIG
Upcoming features

3. What is digilib? Image viewing component
Splitted into server and client application
Tranfers only the requested image data to the client
Supports a wide range of image formats
No additional applications needed on client side
Only browser with javascript needed

4. Digilib – basic functionality
Digicat
Image gallery with a definable set of images
Zoom
Zoom in / out and Zoom-Areas
Annotations
Markers can be set in the image
Reference
Gives a refernce to that image with all performed actions as URL or latex reference
Navigation and Scaling

5. Screenshots (digicat)

6. Screenshots (digilib – 1 image)

7. Screenshots (digilib – zoom)

8. Some history
Developed by MIPWG (Dr. Robert Casties) and Universität Bern and other institutes in the Humanities section of the Max Planck society under direction of Prof. Graßhoff (Uni Bern)
Registered as open source software at „BerliOS“ in 2002
Used for „Archimedes“ project of the MIPWG to present digitalized images and transcriptions
intensified development for ECHO (European Cultural Heritage Online)
Used in many projects within the MPS where digitalized material (images) is presented

9. Digilib and eSciDoc
Digilib is now integrated into the eSciDoc infrastructure
Every solution will be able to present its images via digilib easily
Digilib is going to be used in two MPDL solutions: FACES and VIRR
MPDL contributes to the further development of digilib

10. Interested in a digilib SIG
MPIWG Berlin: ECHO, Archimedes Collections, etc.
Bibliotheca Hertziana, Rom: Lineamenta, ArsRoma, CIPRO
Kunsthistorisches Institut, Florenz: Fototeca
Kunsthistorisches Zentralinstitut, München: Farbdiaarchiv
MPDL, München: FACES, VIRR

11. Upcoming features Stable integration into the eSciDoc infrastructure
Presentation of entered metadata and full text
Further devlopment of additional features
Double page viewing (impression of reading a book)
Easy entry of metadata
Extended zooming
Measuring features …
Further development of the frontend for the browser