Thursday 19th February, 2015

 

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Attendees

• Richard Green (University of Hull)
• Julie Allinson  (University of York)
• Richard Higgins (University of Durham)
• Katherine Lynch (Temple University)
• Rob Sanderson (Stanford University)
• Shaun Ellis (Princeton University)
• George Kozak (Cornell University)
• Eben English (Boston Public Library)
• Peter Binkley (University of Alberta Libraries)
• Randall Floyd (Indiana University)
• William Cowan (Indiana University)
• Andy Smith (Indiana University Purdue University at Indianapolis)
• Sean Aery (Duke University)
• Colin Gross (University of Michigan)
• Sue Richeson (University of Virginia)
• Steven Ng (Temple University)

 

Agenda and notes

1.  Roll call
   1. Welcome new folks - introductions
   2. Facilitator and note taker for this call?  Julie Allinson has kindly agreed to facilitate these meetings.  Richard Green will note-take this one.
   3. Call for agenda items
2. Next call
   1. Date? Thursday 26th February 8.30am PT; 11.30am ET; 4.30pm GMT - and the following two Thursdays also (the conference line is booked for the next 9 weeks if the group needs it)
   2. Facilitator? Julie
   3. Note taker? Kate volunteered.
3. Discussion of Interest Group brief
   Julie has put together an overview at  Page Turners : The Landscape
   
   1. Acceptable? 
       Reinforcement that this IG is about the presentation layer, not the image serving level.
      Group may wish also to come up with a recommended way of structuring Fedora objects to facilitate provision for page turning for those not using Hydra::Works
      Solr index might be a source of data for the page turning process thus potentially avoiding the need to "understand" a Fedora object structure.  (This approach was challenged later in the call.)  Might want to visit both methods.
   2. Modifications?
      The brief might usefully contain something about "sharing methodologies".  (Action: Eben to add this clause) 
4. First steps?
   1. Establish list of IIIF presentation API compatible viewers (with page turning capability) - either complete or in development.
      There is a list on the IIIF web pages.  We should review it for completeness. Eventually build a page identifying the perceived strengths and weaknesses of each.
      Best first to build a page of what IG members currently have and where they are "trying to go".  This will give us a checklist against which to judge the viewers: this is effectively the Use Case document suggested at (b).  (Action: Julie to provide a template page; ALL to fill it in before the next call)
   2. Use cases and requirements - types of collections (eg. regular sized, irregular sized, foldouts and inserts)
   3. Implementation
      In the background we need to be thinking about how "this" might be implemented - especially to deal with ordering.
      Jon Stroop has a Ruby gem "O'Sullivan" which will generate a JSON presentation manifest once the data is gathered.
      Would be a helpful first step to look at a complete JSON response on a production website.  Rob has some fixture objects on the IIIF website that can be used to check compliance and will add a link (Action Rob:  Add link please. See bottom of the Page Turners : The Landscape page) 
5. AOB
   1. Clarification of communication channels.
      Please echo all significant emails out onto the hydra-community and hydra-tech lists putting "[Hydra Page Turner IG]" at the beginning of the subject field to aid filtering.