Discovery and Use of Images in the Biblissima Portal
Providing Access to Medieval and Renaissance Books via IIIF
Régis ROBINEAU@regisrob
2017 IIIF Conference
Institutum Patristicum Augustinianum, The Vatican - June 7th, 2017
@biblissima
The Biblissima portal in a nutshell
➔ Focus: history of collections / transmission of texts in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
➔ aggregates specialized data on medieval manuscripts and early printed books
➔ search, browse, visualize
(Heidelberg, Universitätsbibliothek, Cod. Pal. lat. 864)
IIIF Collection URL
IIIF contents in the portal
➔ 2347 books available via IIIF (May 2017)
➔ Providers:◆ Gallica, BVMM
◆ + BAV, BSB, Archive.org, Harvard University, e-codices, Universität Heidelberg, Numistral, World Digital Library
➔ Licenses (beta.biblissima.fr/en/licences)
DemoPlutarch’s “Lives”
(“Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans”)
Video: https://youtu.be/bAIDngKRp1g
Grazie mille!
@biblissimabiblissima.fr
IIIF delectatio !
frama.link/iiif-rome
Biblissima Team
