Mapping Vincent Van Gogh
The Center for Open Data inward the Humanities has created a real impressive Leaflet.js based tool for browsing historical manuscripts, paintings together with other documents. The IIIF Curation Viewer is an open-source epitome viewer that allows y'all to persuasion whatsoever epitome that has an IIIF Manifest (a mutual criterion used past times many museums, galleries together with universities or thence the world).
In this demo of the IIIF Curation Viewer the application is beingness used to allow y'all to explore an ancient Japanese manuscript. Using the document viewer y'all tin flame motion backwards together with forwards through the dissimilar pages of the manuscript (or pick out whatsoever page from the driblet downwards menu). Selecting the dark foursquare push clitoris from the map card allows y'all to describe or thence private text characters inward the document. When y'all pick out a grapheme inward this agency an information window opens amongst the modern Japanese translation of the character.
You tin flame role the IIIF Curation Viewer to persuasion whatsoever document, epitome or epitome that has an IIIF Manifest. For representative hither is Van Gogh's Self Portrait (Dedicated to Gauguin). If y'all await at the URL for the Van Gogh epitome inward the viewer y'all should live on able to come across where I added the URL for the painting's IIIF Manifest (I got the manifest from the Harvard Art Museum website). Here is some other representative where I but added the URL for Rossetti's A Sea Spell.
If y'all are to a greater extent than interested inward seeing how the IIIF Curation Viewer handles text together with thence hither is a letter from Francis Crick to Michael Crick, where Crick discusses the uncovering of something he calls DNA. The drawing tool inward the map allows y'all to pick out whatsoever business office of the document to practise an epitome of your pick (you tin flame come across the epitome I saved higher upwards of Crick's refer of 'Deoxyribonucleic acid' inward the letter.
If the play's the matter for y'all together with thence y'all mightiness prefer this Leaflet map of the complete plant of Shakespeare. Of course of didactics the IIIF Curation Viewer tin flame also live on used to await at maps. Here's the Gough Map from or thence 1360.
