Hello: It was the still in development Mirador 2 in the demonstration. Eben English has just done a presentation at Code4Lib
video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCfpQgXcpTE&t=2h40m16s
slides at http://slidesha.re/1DiNNuc
which addresses this question. Nowadays it may not even be a competition, as it is possible to serve many of the viewers as javascript with the images and leave the end viewer to make their choice.
It may also be appropriate to deploy different viewers with different material types (such as the map viewer at oldmapsonline.org for maps or georeferenced material) or to try the approach of the Wellcome who have commissioned (and are making generally available) a more universal viewer that can cope with all the formats (video and audio as well as paper-based) that their spectacular collections contain. From the perspective of those of us dishing out the ones and zeros, having a single solution that copes with all formats is obviously a bonus for reducing our workload and potential future migration issues, but our consumers may have other priorities. Hopefully IIIF will allow us to reach a compromise that keeps us both happy. Richard - - - - - # Richard Higgins # Durham University Library # Archives & Special Collections # Palace Green # Durham # DH1 3RN # E-Mail: r.i.higgins@durham.ac.uk
________________________________________ From: dm-l [dm-l-bounces@uleth.ca] on behalf of Sara L. Uckelman [s.l.uckelman@durham.ac.uk] Sent: 18 February 2015 13:02 To: dm-l@uleth.ca Subject: [dm-l] comparisons of different e-MS readers?
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
-- Dr. Sara L. Uckelman Department of Philosophy Durham University https://www.dur.ac.uk/philosophy/staff/?id=12928 http://dmnes.wordpress.com/