Just to add some sites with manuscript readers:
http://www.manuscriptorium.com/ (the reader unfortunately is closed source)
http://www.e-codices.ch/ (which has a very active development, some details can be found at http://www.e-codices.ch/en/about/webapplication)
and the dfg-viewer http://dfg-viewer.de/en/regarding-the-project/ which is technically not very advanced but based on the widely distributed METS data format http://www.loc.gov/standards/mets/ which gives you the possibility to exchange the viewer to any other capable of handling METS data and that certainly should be an option for a long term project.
Best
Georg
Am 18.02.2015 um 14:02 schrieb Sara L. Uckelman:
Yesterday I attended a planning meaning concerning the Durham priory library's manuscript collection, which is planned for digitisation over the next 5-10 years. A question came up about whether there's been any study done on the relative *technical* merits of different platforms/programmes for viewing manuscripts, either online or downloaded locally. (The person was specifically interested in reviews or comparisons done by people with the relevant computational know- how).
I confess to not being very familiar with this terrain; I've used Uni-HD's reader online (see, e.g., the Manesse codex: http://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/cpg848/0001?sid=c1e158af8bb04a02441c...)
and the reader used by, e.g., http://daten.digitale-sammlungen.de/0000/bsb00001649/images/, but I don't even know what the programmes behind these sites are! The one that was demonstrated to us is Mirador: http://www.biblissima-condorcet.fr/en/news/interoperable-viewer-prototype-no..., http://iiif.io/, and it was really cool. I'd love to know how it stacks up against the competition.
Cheers, -Sara