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SharedCanvas: A Collaborative Model for Medieval Manuscript Layout Dissemination
In this paper we present a model based on the principles of Linked Data that
can be used to describe the interrelationships of images, texts and other
resources to facilitate the interoperability of repositories of medieval
manuscripts or other culturally important handwritten documents. The model is
designed from a set of requirements derived from the real world use cases of
some of the largest digitized medieval content holders, and instantiations of
the model are intended as the input to collection-independent page turning and
scholarly presentation interfaces. A canvas painting paradigm, such as in PDF
and SVG, was selected based on the lack of a one to one correlation between
image and page, and to fulfill complex requirements such as when the full text
of a page is known, but only fragments of the physical object remain. The model
is implemented using technologies such as OAI-ORE Aggregations and OAC
Annotations, as the fundamental building blocks of emerging Linked Digital
Libraries. The model and implementation are evaluated through prototypes of
both content providing and consuming applications. Although the system was
designed from requirements drawn from the medieval manuscript domain, it is
applicable to any layout-oriented presentation of images of text.Comment: 10 pages; 10 figures; accepted to JCDL 201