Am loving Booksnake (<https://tally.so/r/3qGPkY>), a new app - currently in beta... - histodons group

litteracarolina , 6 months ago

Am loving Booksnake (https://tally.so/r/3qGPkY), a new app - currently in beta testing - for viewing #IIIF-enabled original documents as if they were virtually lying on a surface of your choice.

Here is the #Psalter of Queen Isabella of England (https://www.loc.gov/item/2021667782/#) from the Library of Congress. I was very pleased that I could leaf through the book while it was lying there, and zoom in/out! @medievodons @histodons

Open manuscript on a floor. Blank page on left, decorated calendar in red and blue on right.
Manuscript page with brown, red and blue lettering and a foliage border on left. Golden roundel in right margin. Library stamp in bottom margin.

Closed book on floor

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eloquence , 6 months ago

@litteracarolina @medievodons @histodons

This looks very cool. I'd love to know if it'll be fully open source -- the NEH grant seems to imply that it will at least be partially opened up (https://apps.neh.gov/publicquery/main.aspx?f=1&gn=HAA-287859-22), but then they say "patent pending" on the website, which is typically incompatible with a wider open source release. I also didn't find a GitHub repo or anything like that.

(I sent them an email.)

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