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Recent WDL Innovations and
Partner Feedback
(Jason Yasner, WDL Operations Manager)
World Digital Library Partner Meeting
5-6 November, 2015, Alexandria, Egypt
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Recent Innovations
 Translation Experiment
 Statistics
 Partner Institution Page
 API
 International Image Interoperability
Framework (IIIF)
 WDL-Partners Slack Forum
 Partner Production Dashboard (v1.0)
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Translation Experiment
 Crowdsourcing experiment; volunteer-based,
highly controlled to maintain quality
 Students in the Master’s program in “English
to French translation” at Université Charlesde-Gaulle (Lille3), France
 Arrangement with the professors, setting up
mechanisms to import and export files, and
establishing a workflow and quality review
processes
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Statistics
 Basic WDL collection statistics
 Appears on footer of every page
 Available in all seven (7) languages
 Partners can now request more in-depth,
institution-specific statistics
 Working toward more self-service
features
 www.wdl.org/statistics
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Partner Institution Page
 Template ready for institution page
 Comprehensive information about institution
and its collections
 Partners to provide the descriptive information
for each of these pages
 Translation burden/cost will be considerable,
so their added value needs to be considered
carefully
 www.wdl.org/en/institution/library-of-congress/
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API
 Application Programming Interface
 “A set of routines, protocols, and tools
for building software applications”*
 Allows developers to interact with WDL
content and tools creatively
 RSS feeds, OpenSearch, IIIF, METS
 Available in English only
 api.wdl.org
* Source: Wikipedia
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International Image Interoperability
Framework (IIIF)
 Increasingly popular API in the digital library
community
 New international standard to provide uniform
access to images and metadata
 Allows developers to create innovative tools to
display and interact
 iiif.github.io/mirador/demo/
 universalviewer.azurewebsites.net
 For more information: iiif.io
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WDL-Partners Slack Forum
 Online forum using cloud-hosted,
commercial product: Slack
 Facilitates robust communication
 Used by WDL production team and
other LC teams
 Invitation-only as of now
 wdl-partners.slack.com
 For more information: slack.com/is
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Partner Production Dashboard
 Draft v1.0 ready for review
 Provides content batch status throughout
the WDL production process
 Sortable by headers
 “Notes” field for more specific information
 Reaches out one year into the future
 We’d like your feedback!
 partners.wdl.org
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QUESTIONS?
Jason M. Yasner
Operations Manager
World Digital Library
[email protected]