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A National Research Infrastructure for Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts in Sweden

IIIF 2023 Online Meeting, December 5-7, 2023

Dr Patrik Granholm, National Library of Sweden

Introduction

• National research infrastructure for medieval and early modern manuscripts in Sweden

• Developed and maintained by the National Library of Sweden

• Descriptions and digitisations of manuscripts dating from the 4th to the 19th century, mainly Greek, Latin, Old Swedish and Icelandic

  • 520 manuscripts (379 digitised)
  • ca 110 000 images

• The long-term aim is to include all medieval and early modern manuscripts in Sweden

• TEI is used for the manuscript descriptions
• IIIF for the digitised manuscript

Infrastructure

• Built entirely using open-source software
  • eXist-db, an XML database with indexing and search functionality, and functions for converting TEI to HTML
  • IIIF implementation using IIPImage Server and Mirador
  • Editing interface built with React.js
• Source code and TEI files available on GitHub
• Images available free of restriction (CC0 Public Domain)

Demo

Acknowledgments

manuscripta.se

patrikgranholm.com

patrik.granholm@kb.se