The Europeana Natural History Aggregator OpenUp! has published an online tool that supports the automated creation of IIIF manifests out of uploaded EDM metadata.
This guide describes in detail how to use the tool and how your EDM metadata is transformedwhat it delivers.
The tool is currently available in version 1, i.e. it supports the conversion of EDM metadata for digital images hosted in IIIF compliant image servers. Subsequent versions will integrate the creation of IIIF manifests for audio and video data.
The tool is realised in co-operation with Europeana and uses the same IIIF mapping as Europeana. For more information on the mapping see chapter 9 of this guide.
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After downloading your created manifests, there is one last step to make them accessible: You have to make sure that you unzip the manifests in the correct folder on your server. In our case we would have to store the IIIF manifests in the folder "manifests" on the server "my.IPADDRESS". The storage place must match the path in the service base URL for manifests that you had entered in the upload form.
9 Manifest Creation
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For each EDM record, a corresponding IIIF manifest is created and saved as an xml file. For example, if the user provides ten valid EDM records and enters the correct IIIF service base URL for those records, ten manifest xml files are created. The name of each manifest xml file is derived from the name of the corresponding tif image on the image server and looks like this: “manifest_ID.json”
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Goal: You can use the delivered IIIF-enriched EDM metadata records for your further processing as required. In particular, they also serve as templates for describing IIIF resources in exactly your EDM metadata records.
11 Troubleshooting
“name does not exist”:
After a week the EDM Manifest Creation tool deletes a submitted dataset. It is highly possible that the dataset has been removed because of this. Or it is possible that a dataset with this name does not exist at all.
How error is produced: Writing project name in Name input field -> Choosing Track/download harvested dataset as Harvest Protocol -> Submit button
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“OAI-PMH upload failed”:
This window shows if the OAI-PMH link was not correct or one of the two URL input fields could not be processed correctly.
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Samples
Original EDM (from OAI provider)
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