Terminology

Terminology

Project

A virtually isolated area for each IIIF mandate that the University Library provides for an institution.

Administration interface users defined by the institute will be assigned to one or many projects and are then entitled to see and edit all information regarding the project. The contents within a project (collection, sequences and images) are organised in a tree.

Collection

Collections are used to arrange the images in a project hierarchically (similar to a folder in a file explorer). A collection could contain one or more child collections. A collection can have child collections and / or sequences.

Root Collection

Every Project has exactly one root collection (A collection with no parent collection).

Sequence

A sequence is used to store one or a series of images.

Manifest

Our sequence level is equivalent to the so called IIIF manifest. A manifest contains the overall description of the structure and properties of the digital representation of an object. It carries information needed for the viewer to present the digitized content to the user, such as a title and other descriptive information about the object or the intellectual work that it conveys. Each manifest describes how to present a single object such as a book, a photograph, or a statue.

Image

An image which can be accessed via the IIIF API.

Task

A task is created when an action must be performed by the system that cannot be executed immediately (synchronously). The tasks are executed in the background by the system as batch process. A task can contain further sub-tasks and, if necessary, generate new tasks.