I would go with Mirador hands down. It is already cool and it has an active development community who get what MSS are about (full disclosure, my center is part of that community). More importantly. It is IIIF compliant which is a powerful standard for exposing ms images for scholarly research and use.

Jim

On Wednesday, February 18, 2015, Sara L. Uckelman s.l.uckelman@durham.ac.uk wrote:

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= c1e158af8bb04a02441c48d73cfba985) 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-now-online-mirador, http://iiif.io/, and it was really cool. I'd love to know how it stacks up against the competition.

Cheers, -Sara

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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