Balisage 2021
5 August 2021
On 5 August 2021 Pietro Liuzzo speaks at the Balisage 2021 conference on "Serving IIIF and DTS APIs specifications from TEI data via Xquery with support from a SPARQL Endpoint"
When presenting manuscript materials online, an IIIF (International Image Interoperability Framework) interface makes it possible for the use to zoom in and out dynamically on a manuscript page, providing far better access to the page than any set of pre-determined zoom levels, as well as a better user experience. Distributed Text Services (DTS) provide similar flexibility for navigation of text, enabling consistent user interfaces for distributed text collections. Both IIIF and DTS use linked-data APIs with JSON as a data format. We describe how we can use the RESTxq interface in eXist-db to support these APIs and make the manuscripts of the Beta maṣāḥǝft project findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable (FAIR).