SharedCanvas: A Collaborative Model for Medieval Manuscript Layout Dissemination
Robert Sanderson, Benjamin Albritton, Rafael Schwemmer, Herbert Van de, Sompel

TL;DR
SharedCanvas is a Linked Data-based model that enables interoperability and detailed presentation of medieval manuscripts, supporting complex layouts and fragmentary content for digital scholarly access.
Contribution
It introduces a novel Linked Data model and implementation for describing complex manuscript layouts, facilitating interoperability and scholarly presentation across repositories.
Findings
Prototype applications demonstrate effective content sharing and presentation.
Model supports complex, fragmentary, and layout-oriented manuscript descriptions.
Applicable to other layout-based digital content beyond medieval manuscripts.
Abstract
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…
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Taxonomy
TopicsDigital Humanities and Scholarship · Library Science and Information Systems · Semantic Web and Ontologies
